The Analysis of Jennie Gerhardt
Anastasia Semenovskaya 3264/1
Presentation of the book “Jennie Gerhardt” by Theodore Dreiser. 1. My choice. 2. About the author. 3. The novel. 4. Plot. 5. Personal observations of characters. 6. My opinion.
1. The book I have chosen to describe is “Jennie Gerhardt” by Theodore Dreiser. I didn’t even think for a moment, when I got a task to make a presentation of a book, because it is my favourite masterpiece. First I read it 3 years ago. I started when I was in the plane and the 4-hour flight seemed to run very fast. Despite the fact I went to Turkey in summer to relax, swim and have nothing to think about, every day I spent an hour to read this book. So absorbed I was. I took exactly this book with me on holiday only for one reason: I like when the title consists of name or surname, like, for example, “Jennie Gerhardt”, ”Anna Karenina”, “”Jane Air” by Charlotte Bronte or ”Brothers Shelenberg ” by Bergard Callerman. It makes me interested, because I imagine that there would be a description of one especial fate, which sounds really mysterious.
2. Now I’m going to tell you some facts about the author’s biography and how it’s connected with the novel. Theodore Dreiser was born in 1871 in the USA and died in 1945 there. His family was out of heels so he had to get by. He couldn’t afford himself to pay for education. So he had to give up university. Then he tried himself in different spheres: literature, publicism, social activities, he even was an accountant. Politically, Dreiser was involved in several campaigns against social injustice. The literary career began with the novel “Sister Carrie”, published in 1900. The second novel was “Jennie Gerhardt”, published in 1911. This novel as many other works of Dreiser is full of autobiographical features. The closest connection appear in description of Gerhardts. For example the head of the family William Gerhardt has much in common with the author’s father John Poll Dreiser: deep religiosity,
Presentation of the book “Jennie Gerhardt” by Theodore Dreiser. 1. My choice. 2. About the author. 3. The novel. 4. Plot. 5. Personal observations of characters. 6. My opinion.
1. The book I have chosen to describe is “Jennie Gerhardt” by Theodore Dreiser. I didn’t even think for a moment, when I got a task to make a presentation of a book, because it is my favourite masterpiece. First I read it 3 years ago. I started when I was in the plane and the 4-hour flight seemed to run very fast. Despite the fact I went to Turkey in summer to relax, swim and have nothing to think about, every day I spent an hour to read this book. So absorbed I was. I took exactly this book with me on holiday only for one reason: I like when the title consists of name or surname, like, for example, “Jennie Gerhardt”, ”Anna Karenina”, “”Jane Air” by Charlotte Bronte or ”Brothers Shelenberg ” by Bergard Callerman. It makes me interested, because I imagine that there would be a description of one especial fate, which sounds really mysterious.
2. Now I’m going to tell you some facts about the author’s biography and how it’s connected with the novel. Theodore Dreiser was born in 1871 in the USA and died in 1945 there. His family was out of heels so he had to get by. He couldn’t afford himself to pay for education. So he had to give up university. Then he tried himself in different spheres: literature, publicism, social activities, he even was an accountant. Politically, Dreiser was involved in several campaigns against social injustice. The literary career began with the novel “Sister Carrie”, published in 1900. The second novel was “Jennie Gerhardt”, published in 1911. This novel as many other works of Dreiser is full of autobiographical features. The closest connection appear in description of Gerhardts. For example the head of the family William Gerhardt has much in common with the author’s father John Poll Dreiser: deep religiosity,