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This 3 page paper discusses John Steinbeck's work and how it reflected the changes in America that were occurring at the time he wrote. Bibliography lists 4 sources.
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twentieth century. This paper examines how his work reflected the difficulties of life in America at that time. Discussion For many people, Steinbeck is a "regional" writer, an author who
brought a specific place, in this case the Salinas Valley in California, alive for them. But Steinbeck is much more than the creator of the charming characters who lived on
Cannery Row; he is more important even than perhaps his greatest creation, the Joad family, who left the Dust Bowl of Oklahoma to try and find work in the fields
of California. He is "one of the key witnesses to those years of trauma and suffering."1 With the exception of Harriet Beecher Stowe, Richard Wright and Upton Sinclair, Dickstein writes,
"no protest writer had a greater influence on how Americans looked at their own country. The plight and migration of the Joads ... the Dust Bowl, the loss of a
family home, the trek in search of work, the awful conditions for migrant farm labor, the struggle to keep the family together, became a metaphor for the Depression as a
whole."2 Steinbecks portrayal of the Joads and their struggle was so vivid that it "aroused sympathy and indignation that transcended literature" because it seemed as if Steinbeck was reporting on
a real family, "which in a sense he was."3 Steinbecks novels, at least the ones that we remember best, such as Of Mice and Men, Cannery Row, Tortilla Flat and
The Grapes of Wrath all are set in or near the same place: the Salinas Valley in California. This isnt surprising, since Steinbeck was born in Salinas. "In California folks
like to say that Steinbeck didnt write fiction at all, that he wrote real stories about real people."4 Some of those people lived in Monterey, in a "raffish waterfront area
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