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From the swashbuckling pirate dream to some relaxation on National morality—two traditional Steinbeck books create their dark backbone debutsIN GIVING John Steinbeck the 1962 Nobel Prize in Literature, the Nobel panel mentioned that with The Wintertime of Our Discontent, he'd “resumed his place being an impartial expounder of the reality, with an impartial intuition for what's truly American.” Ethan Allen Hawley, the character of the book, functions as a clerk in a supermarket that his family once possessed. Together with the decrease within their standing, his spouse is disturbed, and his teen-age kids are starving for that enticing material luxuries he can't supply. The other evening, in a minute of moral crisis, Ethan decides to have a vacation from their own meticulous requirements.