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Jennie Gerhardt is a destitute young woman. While working in a hotel in Columbus, Ohio , Jennie meets George Brander, a United States Senator, who becomes infatuated with her. He helps her family and declares his wish to marry her.
- Theodore Dreiser
- 1911
Jennie Gerhardt, novel by Theodore Dreiser, published in 1911. It exemplifies the naturalism of which Dreiser was a proponent, telling the unhappy story of a working-class woman who accepts all the adversity life visits on her and becomes the mistress of two wealthy and powerful men in order to.
- Theodore Dreiser
- 1911
Published in 1911, the book follows the life of the titular character, Jennie Gerhardt, as she navigates love, family, and societal expectations in late 19th century America. The novel explores themes of class division, morality, and the consequences of personal choices.
Naturalistic novels of American writer and editor Theodore Herman Albert Dreiser portray life as a struggle against ungovernable forces.
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Dive deep into Theodore Dreiser's Jennie Gerhardt with extended analysis, commentary, and discussion.
Almost since its publication in 1911, Jennie Gerhardt, Dreiser’s second novel, has been beset by charges that it is among his most “sentimental” works, a novel that retreats from the realism of Sister Carrie and represents the American scene less accurately than Dreiser had in 1900.
10 gen 2020 · Gerhardt and his wife, and also Jennie, accepted the doctrines of their Church as expounded by Mr. Wundt without reserve. With Jennie, however, the assent was little more than nominal. Religion had as yet no striking hold upon her.
