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...

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Alfieri is symbolic of the person on the bridge looking down onto the community and could even be considered as the bridge himself by trying to link the Italian culture immigrants come from with the American law that they are introduced to. Alfieri acts as the narrator of the novel because of his symbol of the bridge. ...

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• Grade Level: High School