Growing up in California, Steinbeck witnessed firsthand the struggles of migrant workers that he wrote about so eloquently in his fiction. He attended Stanford University, studying marine biology but never finishing his degree. All his fiction deals with the plight of the common man and his outrage at injustice and oppression. He is best remembered for THE GRAPES OF WRATH (1939), which led to much-needed agricultural reform and has been compared to UNCLE TOM'S CABIN in terms of its impact. In ad more...
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02/27/1902 California, Pacific States, Western States, United States,
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Wow, maybe many of you who hate this book need to do a little soul searching and cognitive introspection. This book paints the dangers of wealth, conspicuous material possession, and displays the common facades worn by your fellow neighbor who only superficially smiles and waves to you. Is this book depressing? Yes- if you are from a wealthy, materialistic background and are now wondering who your real friends are. No- if you aren't mentally influenced and controlled by the accumulation of wealth and riches and find peace of mind and real friendship within the simple life. Personally, I think this book does an excellent job of illustrating the modern day capitalist society that we live in today: the greed, the competition, and lack of civility, and the hypocricy within contemporary Western morality.