The main character's sister, Esta, runs off with a
The main character's sister, Esta, runs off with an actor and gets pregnant. He then gets into a car accident that kills a child and forces him to flee Kansas City. When he meets his uncle in Chicago, that uncle offers him a job at a collar factory in Lycurgus. At that factory he meets Roberta Alden who he seduces and gets pregnant. When Roberta demands that the two get married Clyde plots to drown her in a lake. FTP, name this novel about Clyde Griffiths, a 1925 work by Theodore Dreiser.
The main character's sister, Esta, runs off with an actor and gets pregnant.
An {American Tragedy} (charitably prompt on {Clyde Griffiths} on early buzz)