The best ways that a reader can analyze and evaluate persuasive appeals are the following. When reading the text to come from a neautral approach with the awareness of the authors intent to persuade its audience. Identifying logical fallacies is also a huge part of evaluation of the context upon whether the authors logic, argument and evidence are analytically correct and valid. -Opposed to bias, and logical fallacies used to unconsciously persuade the reader of the authors argument.
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I think the answer is "An American Tragedy". Theodore Dreiser is an American novelist. His best known novels include An American Tragedy and Sister Carrie. He was nominated to the Nobel Prize in Literature during 1930. His works made a great impact on the generation that followed his.