Description of Historical Background and Socio-Economic Life in Theodore dreiser’s “The Financier”
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Expansionism, capitalism, proletariat, financier, American dreamAbstract
Theodore Dreiser is a prominent 20th century American novelist who has elaborately articulated the significant characteristics of American nation’s historical economy, social life and morality in his “The Financier”. He believed that in the late 19th century these characteristics were closely connected with the uncontrolled expansionism of the period and that American society was therefore at vast hypocrisy in which most commercial and public officials professed both a private morality and a devotion to the public welfare while plotting illegal affairs behind it. To this effect, this study examines the predicament of the social and economic life of the American capitalism
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