SOURCE: "The Psychopoetics of Desire in Dreiser's American Tragedy," in Determined Fictions: American Literary Naturalism, Columbia University Press, 1989, pp. 55-74
In the following essay, Mitchell examines An American Tragedy as a deterministic novel in which repetition forces the characters to submit to events beyond their control.
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