Knowing he will not be able to earn enough money to buy nice clothes like that, Clyde quits his job at the drug store and takes a job as a bellhop at Hotel Green-Davidson. He also notices the well-dressed young men who talk to the girls at the drug store. Those who have read it, what are your thoughts I picked it up for a quarter about a year ago.
He likes being able to earn money, but even more importantly, the job allows him to meet girls who come in as customers. I just finished An American Tragedy by Theodore Dreiser. At age sixteen, Clyde takes a job as a soda jerk in a drug store. After the service, the family returns to the Bethel Independent Mission, their home, located in a run-down area of the city.Īs Clyde ages, he hears stories about his rich uncle Samuel Griffiths, making Clyde keenly aware of both his own poverty and his insufficient education. Ripped from the headlines, it follows Clyde Griffiths, a handsome, ambitious man whose religious upbringing has left him unprepared to pay the price required to realize the American Dream. Despite his father’s devotion, working as a street preacher barely-if ever-makes ends meet for the large family, and Clyde is embarrassed. An American Tragedy is a tour de force, one of the most important novels in the American cannon. Clyde, the book’s main character, does not enjoy taking part in the service. His wife, Elvira, is there, along with his children, Esta, Clyde, Julia, and Frank, who range in age from fifteen down to seven. First edition, first issue, of Dreisers controversial masterpiece, with. Asa Griffiths is around fifty years old, a street evangelist, and he leads a service with his family meant to attract people walking by. Theodore Dreiser’s novel, An America Tragedy, opens on a 1920s summer night in Kansas City.
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