Of who is hearing or reading, for a story has as many versions as it has To magical realism or interior monologue or other modernistic artifice.Īt one point, Ethan says, "A man who tells secrets or stories must think It is such a pleasure to read a straightforward story that doesn't resort Well have been the last of the significant traditional novelists. I did find one thing remarkable about the book. This to be somewhat too little too late, especially as his daughter has That he must try to help her, "else another light go out." I found Then when Ethan has reached the end of his rope & considers suicide,Ī simple action by his daughter draws him back from the edge & he determines Man must take responsibility for his own actions.
Way out of the predicament that Steinbeck has forecast. This nearly biblical incantation offers the Of his grandfather, "Only in a single man alone-only in one man alone. Where it was headed, but it's hard to argue that he was wrong. Steinbeck manages to paint an extremely bleak portrait of America & To find outlet in action, any action so long as it is violent." Restlessness and uneasiness as discontent moved to anger and anger tried Year when secret fears come into the open, when discontent stops beingĭormant and changes gradually to anger.
Here's his description of the year 1960: it was "a That was occuring and accelerating as the nation entered the 1960's.Īs Ethan considers his schemes, he says, "A crime is something someoneĮlse commits". However, Steinbeck had clearly perceived the general decline in morality To question the likelihood of a college graduate turned grocery clerk (lawyer/technicians The ease with which the morally upright Ethan slips into a life of schemingĪnd crime is not particularly believable. In short order Ethan is narcing on neighbors, betraying Danny, taking Help in getting the property away from Danny. Holds a piece of property that developers are desparate to get ahold ofįor their planned airport. Meanwhile, Danny Taylor, his childhood friend & now the town drunk, She sends a representativeįrom a food wholesaler to Ethan & he is offered a kickback if he'll The town vixen, Margie Young-Hunt, provides a powerful pull to kick $6000 she inherited upon her brother's death. Mary, for instance, wants him to invest the Marullo.Įthan's wife, Mary, and his two children, Ellen and Allen, push him Reduced to being a grocery clerk in the employ of an immigrant, Mr. Of the family fortune & Ethan himself lost the family store, he is
But now times have changed & after his father lost most In years past, his family was one of the most important Sadly, no one was listening.Įthan Allen Hawley is a Harvard educated descendent of New England shippingĬaptains. This book reads like a howl of pain from a man who did not like where
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