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An American Tragedy Volume 1 Book 1 Chapter II
In which the youthful Clyde Griffiths grows up amidst the toils and spiritual earnestness of his impoverished evangelising parents in a bleak Kansas City neighbourhood, grappling with the shame and limitations imposed by his family’s nomadic and unstable existence. He contemplates his desires for a better life, ponderous education, and finer things, while acutely aware of his social surroundings and the gulf between his aspirations and reality.
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