![]() ![]() Clyde is soon bored of the religious life and gets various jobs to get money to enjoy himself, finally landing a good job as a bellboy in the Greene-Davison hotel where, with tips, he can earn up to forty dollars a week and go out drinking with the other bell boys, and have a girlfriend. She sneaks back to Kansas City, where her mother helps her unbeknownst to the rest of the family, though Clyde does find out. ![]() Esta runs off with a man who, as we later learn, abandons her when she is pregnant. ![]() However, they are as unsuccessful at preaching as they are at parenting. Sadly, it is little read today, even though it was in Time Magazine’s 100 best English-language novels since 1923.Ĭlyde Griffiths is the son of a preacher couple, who go out on the streets of the Kansas City in the early part of the twentieth century with their four children, Clyde, his older sister, Hester (called Esta) and his younger brother and sister, Frank and Julia, to preach and sing on street corners. Home » USA » Theodore Dreiser » An American Tragedy Theodore Dreiser: An American Tragedyĭreiser’s classic and long novel, based on a true story, may not be as powerful as it was when first published in 1925 but it is still an excellent realist novel. ![]()
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