Synopsis This book in the name of investigating into Dreiser’s literary genre is, virtually dealing and studying the socialistic literary consciousness in capitalistic American society. It basically reveals as how people can be traumatized even in most dazzling part of the world if developments are not-balanced touching and covering each and every person of the society. It underlines that if light of the development dos not reach the weakest person of the society and country then there is still much to be done. At philosophical plane it deals with the duality of mind and material. The discussion still goes on whether material gains only influences the mind, mental satisfaction and sense of well being or it is mind which measures everything including material achievements.