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CONCLUSION

Dreiser's considerable stature, beyond his historical significance as a pioneer in modern literature, is almost entirely due to his achievements as a novelist. His rich imagination and cumbersome style prevented him from performing well in minor literary genres, and his nonfiction works, especially essays, contained intellectual contradictions. intellectual, lack of objectivity, and even bitterness. But these latter traits are much less common in his fiction, where his compassion and empathy for human endeavours make his best work so moving and memorable. The long novel gave Dreiser the privileged form to explore in depth the possibilities of twentieth-century American life, with its material richness and spiritual doubt. Dreiser's characters struggle for self-actualization in the face of society's narrow and repressive moral conventions, and they often achieve material success and sexual gratification while gratifying longer-term mental health avoids them. Despite Dreiser's alleged shortcomings as a stylist, his novels have succeeded in amassing realistic details as well as the strength and integrity with which they depict aspects of life. tragic edge in America's pursuit of global success. Sister Carrie and An American Tragedy are certainly enduring works of literature that present a profound understanding of the American experience of the turn of the century, with its expansive desires and pervasive frustrations. Dreiser then devoted himself to writing the novel in earnest. The first two episodes of his "Three of Desires" - The Financier (1912) and The Titan (1914) - paint a stark portrait of a ruthless businessman. "Genie" (1915) is a study of the artist's temperament in a material society. In addition, Dreiser writes stories, plays, essays and travel sketches. But fame and financial success did not come to the leader of the American school of realism until the publication of the monumental and controversial An American Tragedy in 1925.

Dreiser continued to write regularly—stories, poetry, travel books, sketches, autobiographies, and novels—but none of his works had the same impact as An American Tragedy. Towards the end of his career, Dreiser devoted himself to questions of socialism and religion. His last novel, The Bulwark (1946), was published a year after his death and is a Quaker novel of considerable power. Also published posthumously, The Stoic (1947), the third unfinished volume of his "Aspiration Trilogy".