American tragedy

The American Tragedy of Theodore Dreizer is the top of American realism and one of the most powerful social and psychological novels of the twentieth century.Based on real events, this book has become a miserable judgment of the “American Dream” and clearly shows what nightmare can turn into the life of a person blinded by the thirst of wealth, status and easy success. In the center of the story is Clyde Griffiths, a young man from a poor family of street preachers. Moving by a stumbling shame for his origin and a passionate desire to break into the higher society, he gets for any chance. Fate smiles him: a rich uncle gives him work at his factory. Here Clyde begins a secret novel with a simple modest worker Robert Olden. However, soon before the ambitious young man the doors of luxury houses are opened, and he conquers the heart of the brilliant, wealthy heir of Sandra Finchley. Clyde understands that only one step remains to fulfill his beloved dream, but on his way the wall stands a terrible news: Robert is pregnant and demands marriage. Having been in the hole between the debt and the blind future, Clyde decides on a desperate step that leads him to the end of the desert. The driver with surgical accuracy preparates the psychology of the crime, thoroughly investigating every step of his hero — from the birth of a dirty thought to the final of the year. The author does not make Clyde an absolute wicked, he shows him a weak, well-known victim of a miserable social system, where the value of a person is measured only by his bank account. This is a deep, dark and incredibly exciting drama that keeps the tension up to the last page. **About what the book in three words:** Ambitions, Crime, Salary. A lovers of large-scale psychological dramas and judicial detectives, as well as everyone who wants to see the reverse, shadow side of the brilliant and miserable capitalist world.