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Page 85
... tragic hero is not , and Dreiser meant him to be . Yet Dreiser's pity for him is at once so vast and so deep that this is not how we react towards Clyde while we are reading the novel . Dreiser does not sentimentalize him at all ...
... tragic hero is not , and Dreiser meant him to be . Yet Dreiser's pity for him is at once so vast and so deep that this is not how we react towards Clyde while we are reading the novel . Dreiser does not sentimentalize him at all ...
Page 129
... tragic history , the tragic history not only of Stark but of himself and of his family . In the end he is relating the story of his own redemption . But - and this is the fatal flaw in a most ambitious novel - what most strikes one is ...
... tragic history , the tragic history not only of Stark but of himself and of his family . In the end he is relating the story of his own redemption . But - and this is the fatal flaw in a most ambitious novel - what most strikes one is ...
Page 265
... tragic figure who never loses our respect and our admiration . There are many echoes of Marlowe in the novel : the Consul's friend Laruelle , a French film director , is planning a Faust film ; and we think of the Consul as Marlowe ...
... tragic figure who never loses our respect and our admiration . There are many echoes of Marlowe in the novel : the Consul's friend Laruelle , a French film director , is planning a Faust film ; and we think of the Consul as Marlowe ...
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