Their themes of pity and anger, their styles of sentimental elegy and scarifying denunciation may come to seem representative of our time. Own land to find seeds of the same destructive hatred. Stirred like every other man in the street with news of foreign persecution, they turn to their They are looking at it again with revolutionary eyes. Each is writing stories and scenarios of America withĪ curious and sudden intensity, almost as if they had never seen or understood it before. Here are a few novelists writing as well as Steinbeck and perhaps a very few who write better but it is most interesting to note how very muchĪlike they are all writing: Hemingway, Caldwell, Faulkner, Dos Passos in the novel, and MacLeish in poetry are those whom we easily think of in their similarity of theme and style. John Steinbeck's New Novel Brims With Anger and PityĪpJohn Steinbeck's New Novel Brims With Anger and Pity By PETER MONRO JACK The Grapes of Wrath By John Steinbeck
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