![]() ![]() ![]() Dreiser projected his own dreams on characters such as Griffiths and Cowperwood only to show that human dreams are never ultimately fulfilled. Yerkes, but Cowperwood was also the incarnation of everything that Dreiser wanted to be-handsome, powerful, accepted, wealthy, and capable. ![]() The character of Frank Cowperwood was shaped in Dreiser’s lengthy research into the life of C. His sisters’ sexual promiscuity was reflected in Carrie and Jennie, and his own frustrations and desires found voice in, among others, Clyde Griffiths. His unstable home life the dichotomy established between a loving, permissive mother and a narrow, bigoted, dogmatic, penurious father abject poverty and his own desires for affluence, acceptance, sexual satisfaction, and recognition were all parts of his fictional commonplace book. Dreiser’s youth and early manhood prepared him for the themes he developed. ![]()
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