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

ass beer mugbeck was indispensable to middle-lower class family in the farming community of Salinas, California. JohnsSteinbeck compute your township is suddenly stricken with poverty. Your familybusiness goes under because the economy of your local community can nolonger support 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 only that bothone around youreverts to their animalistic urges to survive. Those who you havecame to trust, betray you and your family for selfish reasons. Thischaos was usual every day life during the youth of one of Americasgreatest writers, John Steinbeck. The environment that engulfed JohnStein becks primordial life shaped his literary style to centering on the economical hardships of rural labor and mans every day struggles withnatural urges. John Steinbeck was born to middle-lower class family in the farmingcommunity of Salinas, California. Joh ns father, who was abusinessman and politician, experienced great difficulty maintaining asuccessful business in their small town. John watched his father eruptat many endeavors including managing a flour plant and opening a feedand grain store as well as the semipolitical corruption his father facedas County Treasurer (Shillinglaw). No national how much financialadversity Johns family faced, his father forever kept a sunnydisposition and took the family on frequent trips crossways 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 even apply 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 discontented which attackedcontemporary American ideals an longed for conservative ideals. Thispiece, which did not achieve the notoriety that Steinbeck hoped for,woul d be his last novel before his death in 1968(Shillinglaw).Steinbeck witnessed his home town crumble due to financial strain as achild. He felt the effects of the poor economy as his father bouncedfrom trade to job trying to make ends meet. In Steinbecks earlymatureness he worked odd jobs with the poorest of the poor, staying intouch with the injustices these people faced terrene 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.