You · Season 1, Episode 7, "Everythingship"
A customer at Mooney's: An American Tragedy
Joe Goldberg (Penn Badgley) · Mooney's
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What it tells you
A customer tries to buy An American Tragedy at Mooney's and Beck scolds him for it, because she hates Dreiser. Dreiser's 1925 novel is about a young man who lets a problem drown.
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An American Tragedy
Theodore Dreiser · 1925 · novel
Dreiser based it on a real 1906 murder case. Beck's opinion of him reaches the register at full volume.
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