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oberta to be blamed for her tragedy, but she really should be. Although born in a poor farm family, Roberta was very charming and quite clever. She deserved to have better life. Since her childhood, she was dreaming to conquer a man to have a better life that was different from her farm life. With this good dream, she even could not insist on her refusal for Clyde’s pursuit. She had already lost something guided by the dream of bettering herself by marrying Clyde. She even dared not insist on her refusing for Clyde’s unreasonable requirement, even though she knew that she was in the way of danger and maybe even in the way of destruction. So, in her tragedy, she was partly blamed. In American society, the boundary between the poor and rich was very clear. It was impossible for the poor people to enter the upper class. Just because of her unrealistic dream, she was finally pregnant easily and lost her life. Roberta was even told that the man of the rich family was not keeping their words, but she could not resist Clyde’s sweet talk. In a word, she was very foolish. She should keep herself from having sex with Clyde and getting pregnant. Because of her vanity and unrealistic dream, the tragedy happened. Clyde Griffiths Should Have Taken the Major responsibility for Roberta’s tragedy. First, Clyde lured Roberta to have sex with him while he never thought of marrying her; just due to it Roberta became pregnant, which became the direct cause of the tragedy. Second, because of his selfishness, when Roberta was pregnant, he refused to go with Roberta together to the doctor’s for help. At last, to disengage himself from Roberta, he even planned to kill her. Although he did not carry on his plan at the critical moment, he did not give a hand to Roberta in the accident when Roberta was in critical danger and needed help very much. It was his very coldness and selfishness that caused Roberta's tragedy. Clyde was in the interest of realizing his wealth and rank then dreamed to kill his lover. His mentality was distorted by the social desire. He should be sentenced to death. C. The Original Causes of the Tragedy Although Roberta herself and Clyde should be blamed for her tragedy, in the final analysis, the original causes of Roberta's tragedy are the evil capitalist social system. Why did both Roberta and Clyde have the unrealistic dream and even lose their lives for the dream? To find out the answer for these questions, we have to mention the prevalent culture and the American society. Roberta’s tragedy was very great important significant. It showed in true history that American society ruined the youth people. As we know in American society at that time, the individualism, money worship and American Dream were very prevalent in America. The American Dream was based on the assumption that each person, no matter what his origins are, could succeed in life in the sole basic of his or her own skill and effort. It “describes an attitude of the hope and faith that looks forward to the fulfillment of the human wishes and desire”.(David.F.Trask, 1900.) These spirits dated from the English Religion Reformation. As the English capitalist class became stronger and wealthier, they struggled for more political power against the feudalism aristocracy and more freedom of religious belief. The government crucially repressed their struggles. To escape from the repressions and to survive and develop, the pilgrims left the European continent for the new one—t