an american tragedy
... provide so little. The Lack of indulgence provided him as a child as well as his rejection of the credibility of God led Clyde to be more susceptible to the influences of his society later on because of a craving for the ease and luxury to which he had never been accustomed as well as the lack of a strong moral sense. As a result of the circumstances of his youth, Clyde began to develop a great yearning for the wealth and status of those he witnessed while working in the Green-Davidson hotel, as well as later on in the Lycurgus society. To him, it now seemed necessary to have money and nice clothes in order to partake in life’s joys as well as to obtain the interest of girls. He began to strive to attain these goals without the inhibitions that might have come with lying to his family since he really lacked a clear set of morals. He became desperate to achieve some kind of material success. Clyde began to lose himself in the pursuit of the so-called American dream associated with ease, luxury, wealth, and position as if his life were not worth anything unless he attained these. Clyde became so single-mindedly focused on these goals that the most basic moral lines between right and wrong began to blur in the face of them. Sondra Finchley came to represent to Clyde all of the ideals of which he fantasized. When it became clear that Roberta becoming pregnant would mean losing Sondra and along with her all that he had ever dreamed of in terms of wealth and social position, which in his mind were the only possible roads to true happiness, he was unable to accept their loss as an option. His ambitions to become someone of stature had been all that he had lived for so long that when the time cam...