John Steinbeck was born to middle-lower class family in the farming Ess

John Steinbeck was born to middle-lower class family in the farming company of Salinas, California. JohnsSteinbeckImagine your town is suddenly stricken with poverty. Your familybusiness goes under because the economy of your local community can nolonger encourage it. Herds of your closest friends continually move outof the town you grew up in due to a severe shortage of work. Thebasic necessities of life are so scarce that everyone around youreverts to their animalistic urges to survive. Those who you havecame to trust, betray you and your family for selfish reasons. Thischaos was typical every day life during the youth of one of Americasgreatest writers, John Steinbeck. The environment that engulfed JohnStein becks early life shaped his literary style to focus on theeconomic hardships of rural cranch and mans every day struggles withnatural urges. John Steinbeck was born to middle-lower class family in the farmingcommunity of Salinas, California. Johns father, who was abusiness man and politician, experienced great difficulty maintaining asuccessful business in their small town. John watched his father failat many endeavors including managing a flour plant and opening a feedand grain store as well as the political corruption his father facedas County Treasurer (Shillinglaw). No matter how much financialadversity Johns family faced, his father always kept a sunnydisposition and took the family on frequent trips across California. These small towns and cities John and his family would visit, laterserved to be the local of his future novels such as East of Eden andThe Red Pony(Fontenrose, 2). John blush used his home town of Salinasto serve as the setting for the shor... ...mericans as he did in previous works. In1960, John published The Winter of discontentedness which attackedcontemporary American ideals an longed for conservative ideals. Thispiece, which did not achieve the notoriety that Steinbeck hoped for,would be his last novel before his death in 1 968(Shillinglaw).Steinbeck witnessed his home town decompose due to financial strain as achild. He felt the effects of the poor economy as his father bouncedfrom job to job hard to make ends meet. In Steinbecks earlyadulthood he worked odd jobs with the poorest of the poor, staying intouch with the injustices these people faced everyday and witnessinghow humans react in times of need. The environment that engulfed JohnStein becks early life shaped his literary style to focus on theeconomic hardships of rural labor and mans every day struggles withnatural urges.