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The Winter of Our Discontent
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July 1, 2022
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July 30, 2022
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July 2022 New School Classic Group Read

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Jeff Koeppen
Steinbeck has never disappointed me. The Winter of our Discontent is much shorter than, slower to develop than, and not as complex as East of Eden, nor are the secondary characters fleshed out as thoroughly, but the story is gripping and the moral degeneration of the main character, Ethan Allen Hawley was something to experience.

Typical of Steinbeck, the writing is wonderful and the characters are hard to forget. He wrote this novel around 1960 and it was meant to portray the moral decay of Ame
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