【正文】 she wanted thought the marriage to reach her goal. Feminism?s gist was selfconfidence and impendent, through oneself effort to get success. In the novel, it emphasized Roberta39。s American Dream and the female?s tragedy. It revealed humble women?s tragedy. The feminism was a new word. In the 18c, feminism was grown up from the west. The feminism was based on the west bourgeois democratic and broke out larger scale. The feminism was a politics movement of the way of emancipating the women. Robert had no enough braveness to accept her mistaken。s tragedy. D. The Analysis of Roberta39。s factory, pursued Hotense, Roberta and Sondra. It was the tempt desire for Sondra and her wealth that made Clyde want to kill Roberta to avoid marrying her. It was the same to Roberta. Forced by the yearning for the wealth to improve her status, Roberta left her family for Lycurgus, New York, for good luck. The reason why she fell in love with Clyde at first sight and then had sex with him without marriage was plicated. She thought Clyde was the nephew of Samuel Griffiths。 it would be inevitably admired and obeyed by people who wanted to be selfmade, greatness and success. And selfmade, great and successful should be the main idea of the American dream. Coming into 20th century, the industry achieved very great success, and the goods were produced in mass. The content of American dream had a little changed. Although the dream of greatness, wealth and success had not changed yet, the desire of consuming as much as possible had taken place of the sobriety. The young generation paid more attention to the practice and the fortable even luxurious material life, while more neglecting the traditional virtue and dogma than the generation of their parents did. The consuming culture and the hedonism prevailed over the whole American in the 20th century. In such surrounding, lead by these ideas, the young generation could not help pursuit money, rich material life and the sex. The desire for money and success can be seen everywhere in American Tragedy. The most of guiltless tragedy person was Roberta。s tragedy are the evil capitalist social system. Why did both Roberta and Clyde have the unrealistic dream and even lose their lives for the dream? To find out the answer for these questions, we have to mention the prevalent culture and the American society. Roberta?s tragedy was very great important significant. It showed in true history that American society ruined the youth people. As we know in American society at that time, the individualism, money worship and American Dream were very prevalent in America. The American Dream was based on the assumption that each person, no matter what his origins are, could succeed in life in the sole basic of his or her own skill and effort. It “describes an attitude of the hope and faith that looks forward to the fulfillment of the human wishes and desire”.(, 1900.) These spirits dated from the English Religion Reformation. As the English capitalist class became stronger and wealthier, they struggled for more political power against the feudalism aristocracy and more freedom of religious belief. The government crucially repressed their struggles. To escape from the repressions and to survive and develop, the pilgrims left the European continent for the new one—the American continent. At their arriving, the environment for survival was a crucible. So the prudential virtues emphasized by the Puritans and Quaker?s repeated injunctions against waste, extravagance and ostentatious varieties were conductive to material prosperity, and the dignity of labor and the virtue of diligent application to one?s job received greatest prominence. Through their hard working and great effort, they became a dominant influence in the English colonies. “Puritanism may perhaps best is described as that point of view, that philosophy of life, that code of values, which was carried to New England by the first settlers in the early seventeenth century.”(Ante,1980,P258) Thus, it became one of the continuous factors in American life and American thought. Any inventory of elements that had gone into the making of the American mind would have to mence with Puritanism. Including such feature as sobriety, diligence and equal rights self—government and liberty, the puritans` faith had cultivated so many famous figures in its history and promoted them to the quintessential point. It was the faith that facilitated the way of selfreliance. Fortified of these principles, them migrated to Philadelphia to begin their career first in the printing trade and eventually became a leading citizen there. There is a example, that is a story of his upward climb became an American folklore of success. Though a poor boy at the beginning, he made great success eventually. The rise of Franklin to a man of consequence became an inspiration to young men who aspired to great.(Tang Soo Ping,1980) An American Tragedy was a profound work of the criticism the American Dream. American Dream had e into being for a long time, at the beginning of American founding。 just due to it Roberta became pregnant, which became the direct cause of the tragedy. Second, because of his selfishness, when Roberta was pregnant, he refused to go with Roberta together to the doctor?s for help. At last, to disengage himself from Roberta, he even planned to kill her. Although he did not carry on his plan at the critical moment, he did not give a hand to Roberta in the accident when Roberta was in critical danger and needed help very much. It was his very coldness and selfishness that caused Roberta39。 and she even wished that after they married, or after the baby was born, Clyde might love her and the baby again. Then, they could have a happy life together. When Clyde was struggling in his mind whether to kill her or not, his