Female Troubles

Current book: An American Tragedy
Pages read: 58-115

Clyde has continued to sink into moral degeneracy, drinking and gadding about with his bellhop friends, and has also had sex with a prostitute. He's now spending most of his bellhop wages on a loose woman (but not a prostitute) named Hortense, who's using him for his ready cash and its attendant restaurant meals and gifts. His sister, who we last saw running off to get married, has returned to Kansas City pregnant and ::gasp:: still unmarried.

So far that's it. Gee, I wonder what the message of this book's going to be? Honestly, there's not much to report, plus it's Saturday so I'm unmotivated. I'll give you some more substance soon. Well, assuming there is some.

Also, Dreiser uses double negatives (like "not unaffected") every other sentence, and it's starting to get to me.