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iser expressed a degree of critical and commercial success. There are three books in the novel. In the first book, the author describes Clyde’s life in Kansas. He was born in a poor missionary family; Clyde Griffiths lived a poverty-stricken life since his childhood. He always had to sing hymn of praise in American street everyday with his family. As he grew up, he was more and more tired of and even hated singing hymn of praise in the street with his family, and he was so sensitive that he always felt that the auditors were looking down upon them. In a word, his poor family made him painful. So once he had grown old enough to make money, he threw away that lifestyle. Since at his sixteen, he firstly worked as an apprentice in a drugstore. Before long, he successfully found a better job in Green- Davidson Hotel, the greatest hotel in Kansas, where he worked as a bellboy and earned about $25 a week. In Green- Davidson, he was deeply impressed by the striking contrast between Rich and Poor, and he avidly wanted to rise into this American upper class that seemed to offer him the only hope of self-realizations. As he earned and learnt more in Green- Davidson, he began to drink, play cards and go to brothel, and he made a very vain girl friend, Hortense. In order to curry favor with her to fulfill his desire and to parade his wealth to his friends, he cheated his family that he earned quite a little money, thus he could spend as much money as he could on Hortense and himself. What’s more, his sister was discarded by a man and was already pregnant. Even when his mother and his sister, Esta, were in need of his financial aid, he still refused to help them, and instead he left the fifty dollars to buy a fur coat of beaver for Hortense. Clyde, the poor young man, became more and more greedy and selfish and less kind in the surroundings of the plot Green- Davidson. Later, on the way back to work from a travel for fun, he and his friend ran over a girl with the car which one of his friends stole from his father’s employer. To evade the punishment, he fled to Chicago lonely. Book Two is the key part of the novel, which narrates the process of how Clyde climbed up to the upper class and killed his pregnant lover, Roberta. After he fled to Chicago, he entered his uncle’s factory and begged Samuel Griffiths to give him a job in the Griffiths Collar Company of Lycurgus. Later he went to his uncle’s factory and soon he worked as the head of a department which had 25 girls. Then, Clyde appeared important and prosperous. Because his cousin hated him, frustration and embarrassment encountered frequently with a short space and time. His snobbish relatives soon forgot him. Anxious for promotion, and desirous of happiness imbued with zeal for self-satisfaction, he fell in love with a young and beautiful working girl, Roberta Alden, who was employed in his department. After a time of ogling and flirting, their relationship became intimate. As to marriage, he always dreamed to marry with a rich young beautiful girl to climb up upper status. So he never thought of marring Roberta. The kind girl did not know the thought. Clyde associated with Roberta in order to spend his space-time. His dream was to become a person of better status and entered upper class. Under his blandishment, soon after he had sex with Roberta, and made her pregnant. Before long, he met a friend of his cousin, Sondra Finchley, by accident, and he was deeply attracted by her. Then, he ma