The Uniquness of It All

John Steinbeck was a famous writer of depression era stories. His most well known works include The Grapes of Wrath and Of Mice and Men. Steinbeck wrote several other novels but none are as well known as these two.

John Steinbeck is said to be a unique writer because his writings were opposite of the literature of the early twenties, the roaring twenties. His book The Grapes of Wrath shows this since it is about an Oklahoma family traveling to California for work during the early part of the depression.

He also wrote about the common man. This is shown in Of Mice and Men which is about traveling farm workers, one who is of normal intelligent and the other who is “simple” as it says in the story. Once again challenging the works produced in the early twenties such as F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby.