Since I read an awful lot yesterday (around 250 pages), I have just finished Part Two. Part Three is around 340 pages, so if I keep going like yesterday, I should easily get done before I go back to work on Tuesday.
The book is certainly aptly named, as a tragedy it is, indeed. The book is also a social commentary on what happens when you go against what was considered morality at the time. Roberta acted against her religious upbringing, became a loose woman, and just look at what she got for her sin - death. Clyde has had just as many problems in his life for exactly the same reason. Dreiser apparently had a strict Catholic upbringing, but it appears he tended to write about those with not so strict morals.
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