Summary
John Steinbeck: The Winter of Our Discontent
Steinbeck's novel The Winter of Our Discontent was published in 1961. It depicts American society during the 1950s and 1960s. Ethan Allen Hawley, the novel's protagonist, loses his status as a member of the Long Island nobility after the death of his father. Ethan's fall will not be understood by his family, and he enters the web of corruption and depravity of American society. The high moral principles of the main character will be tested by the environment and he will have to adapt to a world where everything works with lies, fraud, selfish urges that lead to the destruction of humanistic ideals. The line between private and public is very thin, and his adaptation process can lead him to make critical choices and the fatal consequences of those choices.
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