A critic once said that an important part of an excellent literary work is the ability of the piece to produce a mix of delight and uneasiness in the reader. John Steinbeck's The Grapes of Wrath produces a healthy confusion of pleasure and disquietude by means of the good and bad. Bonds were forme...
In John Steinbeck's The Winter of Our Discontent, Ethan Allen Hawley, the main character, endures endless amounts of stress and tension in his life. Ethan felt as though he was surrounded in a world where no one respected him, not even his own family. Ethan's social status, cultural factors, and p...
In Steinbeck's novel, The Grapes of Wrath, the main character the Joads undergo the journey to California to search for work and the happiness that was stolen from them. ... Uncle John let it float down the flooded road to show the world of all of the struggling they had suffered. ...
