John Steinbeck "Many of his books feature impoverished and dispossessed people, such as the American migrant farm workers..."(Ito 7) John Steinbeck started his career as a writer during the Great depression and this time period effected his career greatly. Many of his books, short stories, ...

In over thirty years of writing, from the late 1920s to the 1960s, Steinbeck has given ample indication that he is not the naive proletarian he has at times been called. His stories although almost always encouraging his reader to sympathize with his proletariat style characters are much more v...