Marxian

Frank Copperwood, the financier, is amoral - he’s indifferent towards anything that does not immediately benefit him. A figure of hatred to a left leaning reader, Frank has one redeeming feature – his materialist realism. You could loathe this anti-hero from the standpoint of your bourgeois morality, but you will be drained of loathing. The truth in the facts is that the heart of capitalism is amoral, and so will be its replacement – socialism. Of course Dreiser didn’t overtly make this point in the novel, but to read this novel as a moralistic criticism of capitalist greed only is to fall into a sort of trap. Copperwood ends up being the hero and the reader the villain.