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"The whole conviction of my life now rests upon the belief that loneliness, far from being a rare and curious phenomenon, is the central and inevitable fact of human existence." -Thomas Wolfe
Over and above much else, I feel this is a story about loneliness. Told in a near perfect way with all superfluous 'fat' trimmed, Steinbeck perfectly elucidates a region and an epoch being a better minimalist at stretches then even Hemingway. And all throughout this skill is the ever-pervading theme: that of ...more
Over and above much else, I feel this is a story about loneliness. Told in a near perfect way with all superfluous 'fat' trimmed, Steinbeck perfectly elucidates a region and an epoch being a better minimalist at stretches then even Hemingway. And all throughout this skill is the ever-pervading theme: that of ...more
I read this once in high school then again in college -- I wasn't impressed with it back then but now I completely have a different opinion. It is a slice of America in 1937. In the beginning of the novella there is a description of the path, "a path beaten hard by boys coming down from the ranches to swim in the deep pool, and beaten hard by tramps who come wearily down from the highway in the evening to jungle -up near water. In front of the low horizontal limb of a giant sycamore there is an
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