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Theodore Dreiser (1871-1945) is one of the most outstanding realist writers of the USA at the turn of the 20th century, an epoch characterised not only by considerable social change but also by a significant transformation of thinking. In his stories, the writer ponders over the moral state of modern American society of his time and emphasises the growth of the individual's amorality and aggression. He continually forces his characters to make their choices revealing the inconsistencies of human nature and demonstrates in addition the ability of the great expert at writing profoundly and on a good scale to elucidate acute problems in a small literary form.
