The Grapes of Wrath is one of the most famous novels in the history of American literature. The book won the Pulitzer Prize and contributed much to J. Steinbeck’s winning the Noble Prize in Literature. The book tells us the story of a poor American family Joads who lose their...

John Ernst Steinbeck was an American novelist who is known for his masterpiece works of literature that sought to reflect the situation of the society at that particular moment among many other themes in the public domain. He has written about twenty-seven books and has been largely known for his...

In John Steinbeck’s novella, Of Mice and Men, having a dream helps the men by giving them hope and meaning. George and Lennie both talk about their unique dream of the farm they hope to own, and it becomes clear that this dream is something that keeps them moving forward...

While this piece can be analyzed from many different perspectives, the setting in “The Chrysanthemums” is one that is quite important in understanding the overall theme of the story. In the first line, the reader finds out that it takes place in Salinas Valley, which is John Steinbeck’s place of...

Jhumpa Lahiri and John Steinbeck, both Pulitzer-winning American authors, explore a number of eternal themes in their works. This is the thing that clearly unites them. Living in different periods of the American history, belonging to different ethnicities and genders, the two authors’ works might seem hard to compare. Yet,...