ABSURDITY AND FAILURE in An AMERICAN TRAGEDY and Mc TEAGUE - Asha Pendyala

The connection between the grotesque and American success dream is most striking in the twentieth century, for by then , America had become an urban industrial nation, the dehumanizing effects of the capitalist economy have become pervasive and institutionalized, immigration and individualism have shaken up the entire social structure of the country. Success has changed to the point where it is inseparable from the acquisition of wealth. Norris and Dreiser basically tell the essence of the sinister..