Theodore Dreiser. Titan (№ 194210)

To understand the nature of women of that time, you should mentally refer to the period of the middle ages, when the leading role belonged to the Church and talented, but far from living poets surrounded the woman mystical aura. Since then, girls and women were brought up in the consciousness that they created from another more noble material than men that their mission is to elevate and ennoble the other half of the human race and that their favor - bestsennyi gift in the world. This pink romantic haze that has nothing to do with the conception of individual virtues has led to the fact that women from top to down looked at men and sometimes other women.