He also starts breaking away from his strict upbringing while going out with his hedonistic new friends and develops a serious weakness for women. As a teenager, he becomes a bellboy in a luxury hotel, starts making friends with his coworkers, and enjoys the thrill of making good money, choosing to lie to his mother about how much he earns so that he can spend more on himself than on his family. He’s never spiritually moved by his parents’ work and dreams of having something more in life, envying the people in town who have nicer things. Book 1 covers Clyde Griffiths’ youth in Kansas City as the child of poor street preachers. The novel is divided into three separate parts. Given that discrepancy, there’s naturally much from the book that was lost in translation from book to screen. (The edition I read was 874 pages.) But neither the 1931 film or A Place in the Sun match the book’s epic length, clocking in at 96 minutes and 122 minutes respectively. The novel An American Tragedy is an extremely lengthy read.
An American Tragedy went on to be adapted for the screen twice, first as 1931’s An American Tragedy and again in 1951 as A Place in the Sun. The court case garnered significant media attention throughout the country and was the inspiration for Theodore Dreiser’s 1925 novel An American Tragedy. Instead, Chester convinced her to get into a rowboat with him where he hit her over the head and left her to drown. Eventually, Chester agreed to take a trip with Grace to the Adirondack Mountains, presumably to get married. Reportedly, he was also involved with a young socialite in town. When she became pregnant, she pressured him to marry her, but he kept stringing her along. While working there, he began having an affair with fellow Grace, a fellow factory employee. Gillette was the son of religious parents who were members of The Salvation Army and he later moved to New York to work in a skirt factory owned by his uncle. On March 30, 1908, Chester Gillette was executed after being convicted of the murder of Grace Brown.
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