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...

The harshest conditions of the first half of the twentieth century are portrayed with great power and veracity by one of the greatest American authors, John Steinbeck. Through his writings, Steinbeck is able to let the world visualize and comprehend the struggles of the poverty-stricken working man...