![]() ![]() The question he does not consider is, will he be able to live with the outcome for him and his family and what he may become?Ī probing novel that explores how we confront our own discontentedness. Though not unhappy himself with his lot, prodded by the urgings of others and discontent within his family, he enters a “winter of discontent” and suspends his own sense of honor and ethics in setting in motion a series of events to change his standing in the town. Hawley, however, is reduced to being a clerk in a grocery store he lost to debt that is now owned by an Italian immigrant. What do we do when life doesn’t work out as we had dreamed it? What do we do when our status is inferior to that of others and the community around us including our family point this out to us? John Steinbeck explores this dilemma through the narrative of Ethan Allen Hawley, the descendant of an old New England family of sea captains. Here is what I wrote after my reading of the book in 2012: ![]() As I noted in a recent blog post, this was a happy accident, because a re-reading enriched my understanding of one of Steinbeck’s last novels. The Winter of Our Discontent by John Steinbeck ![]()
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