How John Steinbeck’s Final Novel Grappled With Immigration and Morality

"There’s a very good reason that readers return again and again to John Steinbeck’s fiction when it comes to its handling of class in America. Steinbeck wrote about economic desperation far better than most, and approached some of his fiction with an eye towards the grander systems that left many impoverished. Steinbeck’s name has also served as shorthand for a kind of socially-aware fiction. But while Steinbeck’s work often grappled with class and poverty, one novel from his late period grappled with questions of immigration—and did so in ways that resonate uncomfortably with Trump-era America. That novel is 1961’s The Winter of Our Discontent. ..."
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