There are many aspects of Theodore Dreiser's An American Tragedy that involve the moral decision versus the immoral decision and God. The main theme that Dreiser maintains throughout the novel is Immorality. ... Theodore Dreiser is trying to make the audience realize that morals are more important than the materialistic and unimportant things that people throw their lives into. Every character is An American Tragedy has a problem of some sort. ... Dreiser wants to show his audience that people make the wrong decisions all the time, without realizing the consequences until it is too late. ...

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Theodore Dreiser was a famous naturalistic writer. Theodore Dreiser was born in Terre Haute, 1871, the second youngest in a large family that would number ten children. ... Theodore Dreiser's best works were Sister Carrie (1900), Jennie Gerhardt (1911), and An American Tragedy (1925). ... Huysmans, Maupassant, the English authors George Moore and George Gissing, and the American Writers Theodore Dreiser, Frank Norris, Stephen Crane, James T. ...

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