Dreiser married Sara White in 1898, but his extramarital affairs led them to permanently separate some 14 years later. Huxley, John Tyndall, and Herbert Spencer, and came to adopt a naturalistic worldview: humans are helpless and wholly subject to the influences of their environment. During these young adult years, he read T. After studying for a year at Indiana University, Dreiser became a reporter and moved to the East Coast. In this period, Dreiser also developed a profound desire for material wealth, something that would serve as inspiration for his works. This led Dreiser to associate his father’s lack of productivity with religion. His father was a millworker who struggled to find employment and a strict adherent to Roman Catholicism. Theodore Dreiser was born to a large, poor family in the American Midwest.
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