The Financier, a novel is the first volume of the Trilogy of
Desire, which includes The Titan and The Stoic. Frank Cowperwood
makes his first money by buying cheap soaps on the market and
selling them to a grocer for profit. Cowperwood marries an affluent
widow and over the years, he starts misusing municipal funds with
the aid of the City Treasurer. The Great Chicago Fire redounds to a
stock market crash, prompting him to be bankrupt and exposed. The
Financier follows Cowperwood through trial, his reemergence in the
financial world and a move West and a new start. Theodore Dreiser
was an American novelist and journalist who the naturalist school
and is known for portraying characters whose value lies not in
their moral code, but in their persistence against all obstacles,
and literary situations that more closely resemble studies of
nature than tales of choice and agency.
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