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Essay Archive - An American Tragedy
An American Tragedy
Theodore Drieser constructed a character like no other in the book, An American Tragedy. Clyde Griffiths started off as a young man with no real problems, except for the fact that his family was strictly religious and poor. I say “no real problems” because during the course of the novel, this boy spirals down in life. One event after the other brings this young man down to a place where it becomes harder and harder to climb back up.
In Book one, the reader sees the young boy walking on the street with his family preaching....
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