The Winter of Our Discontent
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Introduction and Notes by Susan Shillinglaw
Ethan Hawley works as a clerk in a grocery store once owned by his prominent family. Without status in the town, his wife is restless, and his teenage children are hungry for the tantalizing material comforts he cannot provide. Then one day, in a moment of moral crisis, Ethan takes a holiday from his own scrupulous standards. In The Winter of Our Discontent, John Steinbeck, perhaps the master writer of the American working class, explores the culture malaise of the 1960s and its farranging implications: social, familial, and personal. In awarding John Steinbeck the 1962 Nobel Prize in Literature, the Nobel Committee stated that The Winter of Our Discontent, Steinbeck had "resumed his position as an independent expounder of the truth, with an unbiased instinct for what is genuinely American."
Ethan Hawley works as a clerk in a grocery store once owned by his prominent family. Without status in the town, his wife is restless, and his teenage children are hungry for the tantalizing material comforts he cannot provide. Then one day, in a moment of moral crisis, Ethan takes a holiday from his own scrupulous standards. In The Winter of Our Discontent, John Steinbeck, perhaps the master writer of the American working class, explores the culture malaise of the 1960s and its farranging implications: social, familial, and personal. In awarding John Steinbeck the 1962 Nobel Prize in Literature, the Nobel Committee stated that The Winter of Our Discontent, Steinbeck had "resumed his position as an independent expounder of the truth, with an unbiased instinct for what is genuinely American."
