The pinnacle of the work of the outstanding American writer Theodore Dreiser. He used to say: “No one creates tragedies—they are created by life. Writers only portray them.” Dreiser managed to depict Clyde Griffiths’s tragedy so powerfully that his story leaves no modern reader indifferent. A young man who has tasted all the charm of the rich life is so eager to establish himself in their society that he commits a crime to achieve it.