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A review by raulbime
An American Tragedy by Theodore Dreiser
5.0
Every hour of it at Golgotha!
The words used to describe what the Eastern Griffiths felt during Clyde's trial and the same words that describe how I felt from the beginning to end of this book.
Theodore Dreiser introduces the character Clyde in a manner that is sympathetic. The first male child of staunch christian missionaries, forced to walk the streets and sing with his family as they preached.
The first two parts of the book are spent fully describing the scenes and state Clyde Griffiths finds himself in, and Mr. Dreiser takes the reader step by excruciating step of all the misteps that Clyde Griffiths takes in his ambitious quest for money, power, beauty and wealthy and the tragic incident that leads to the downfall that was imminent from the beginning.
The book is not short of imperfections. For one it is perhaps 400 pages more than it ought to have been. Too repetitive and wordy.
Howeveer, the author manages to toy with the reader's emotions in a way that I love yet hate at the same time. Building up sympathy and love for Clyde who commits a murder, which was plotted and thus arouses disgust yet Mr. Dreiser still builds up sympathy for him in a cruel and conflicting manner as we are taken to "Golgotha" and lashed during Clyde's trial and the book's eventual end. Yet I absolutely loved the hell that Dreiser put me through in a masochistic way, through and through an incredible book and one od the best I have read thus far!
The words used to describe what the Eastern Griffiths felt during Clyde's trial and the same words that describe how I felt from the beginning to end of this book.
Theodore Dreiser introduces the character Clyde in a manner that is sympathetic. The first male child of staunch christian missionaries, forced to walk the streets and sing with his family as they preached.
The first two parts of the book are spent fully describing the scenes and state Clyde Griffiths finds himself in, and Mr. Dreiser takes the reader step by excruciating step of all the misteps that Clyde Griffiths takes in his ambitious quest for money, power, beauty and wealthy and the tragic incident that leads to the downfall that was imminent from the beginning.
The book is not short of imperfections. For one it is perhaps 400 pages more than it ought to have been. Too repetitive and wordy.
Howeveer, the author manages to toy with the reader's emotions in a way that I love yet hate at the same time. Building up sympathy and love for Clyde who commits a murder, which was plotted and thus arouses disgust yet Mr. Dreiser still builds up sympathy for him in a cruel and conflicting manner as we are taken to "Golgotha" and lashed during Clyde's trial and the book's eventual end. Yet I absolutely loved the hell that Dreiser put me through in a masochistic way, through and through an incredible book and one od the best I have read thus far!