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y for Lycurgus, New York, for good luck. The reason why she fell in love with Clyde at first sight and then had sex with him without marriage was complicated. She thought Clyde was the nephew of Samuel Griffiths; he might be rich and could bring her wealth and better status. From the context An American Tragedy, we can see this: “And then one day shortly thereafter, Gilbert Griffiths walking through here and stopping to talk to Clyde, she was led to imagine by this that Clyde was really much more of a figure socially and financially than she had previously thought… “Here comes mr.gilbert griffiths. His father owns this whole factory and when he dies, he will get it,they say. And he is his cousin.” When she knew this, her first response is: “Is he rich, too?” When she knew that: “He only came on here a little while ago to learn the business. Maybe he won`t work here much longer.” “She was suddenly troubled by this last remark. She had not been thinking, or so she had been trying to tell herself, of Clyde in any romantic way, and yet thought that he might suddenly go at any moment, never to be seen by her any more, disturbed her now”(Dreiser, 1965,) From above context, we can say that it is because of the very dreaming of bettering herself and improving her social status and increasing her wealth in the future. So Roberta allowed herself to fall in love with Clyde and had the intimate relationship with Clyde. And finally, it turned out to be a dream.. Money worship, hedonism, individualism and the desire for unrealistic delusion are filling the world. Living in such world, the youth could not get the right guidance and education, led by the Horatio Alger myth, the American youth are apt to destroy themselves. The false concept and culture in American society are the original causes of Roberta's tragedy. D. The Analysis of Roberta's Tragedy on Feminism An American Tragedy was succeeding in the history literature. The author even said that the novel’s success was not a tragedy, but it was the American Tragedy. The novel expressed strongly complains through Clyde's American Dream and the female’s tragedy. It revealed humble women’s tragedy. The feminism was a new word. In the 18c, feminism was grown up from the west. The feminism was based on the west bourgeois democratic and broke out larger scale. The feminism was a politics movement of the way of emancipating the women. Robert had no enough braveness to accept her mistaken; she wanted to require Clyde to share the mistaken. Obviously, she was a tragic person. Feminism called on women to look for a new way of life, got release from the chain society. In American Tragedy, Roberta just was a lack self-confidence girl, her destiny decided her tragedy, and herself was blamed for her tragedy. She could not refuse the lure of sex and enjoyment, American Dream affected her, too. The life style of hedonism had entered every American mind. Roberta often left her work to disport with Clyde. In her mind; she wanted thought the marriage to reach her goal. Feminism’s gist was self-confidence and impendent, through oneself effort to get success. In the novel, it emphasized Roberta's stupidity and irresolute individuality. After she was pregnant, she felt very afraid and had no any idea to solve the case. She never thought to give birth for her child and began new life, this was her tragedy. Novel describes that people thought was ruined in their sprit world, so that led the tragedy to hap