Dreiser also wrote some solid and powerful short stories in the early stage. The second novel Jenny Girl (19 1 1) was published. This is a companion piece to Sister Carrie. Although it is a different kind of tragedy, it is also an accusation against the society where the rich and the poor are opposed. The heroine Jenny, the daughter of a worker, has a simple and noble heart. She doesn't envy wealth and enjoyment like Carrie, but only wants to sell her labor and do some menial work to support her family. But this humble wish was shattered again and again by the cruel reality. In order to get the family out of trouble, she entrusted herself to Senator Brandt and speculator Lester. The former couldn't make up his mind to marry her, and the latter abandoned her under the pressure of public opinion in the upper class. In poverty and disease, her daughter who lived alone with her died again. Jenny's tragedy is not only a personal tragedy, but also because she is played by two men. In order to emphasize this point, the author describes the broad social environment centered on this story, shows the tragic life landscapes of the lower classes in real detail, and exposes the extravagant and shameless lives of the bourgeoisie as a contrast, thus showing that the root of the tragedy lies in the whole American society with disparity between the rich and the poor. Compared with Carrie, Jenny has never fallen spiritually and is morally innocent, so her fate can arouse readers' greater sympathy, and correspondingly, the novel is more critical of social reality. In previous American literature, workers' daughters were rarely portrayed as tragic positive figures.