《愤怒的葡萄》中乔德妈的分析 --毕业论文.doc

【标题】???????《愤怒的葡萄》中乔德妈的分析? 【作者】胡 艺 瀚 【关键词】斯坦贝克；乔德妈；神圣的；不可战胜的 【指导老师】赵洪尹 王艳蓉 【专业】英语 【正文】I. IntroductionA. An Introduction to John SteinbeckJohn Steinbeck was born on 27th February 1902 in Salinas, the center of the California Lettuce industry. He was of German-Irish ancestry. His father, John Ernst Steinbeck, was a country treasurer and local politician and his mother, Olivia Hamilton, was a schoolteacher. Mainly encouraged by his mother, John Steinbeck always had the ambition to be a writer. He attended the local school and worked on farms and ranches during his vacations. Between 1920 and 1926 he attended Stanford University to study marine biology intermittently but did not take a degree. Later he began to support himself through manual labor while writing. He took odd jobs including hod carrier, apprentice painter, caretaker, surveyor and fruit picker. His experiences among the working classes in California lent authenticity to his depiction of the lives of the workers who are the central characters of his most important novels. Steinbeck spent much of his life in Monterey County, which later was the setting of some of his fiction.Steinbeck traveled to New York in 1925 to see if he could make a living as a writer. While working as a watchman of a house in the High Sierra, Steinbeck wrote his first book, Cup of Gold?(1929). In Pacific Grove in the early 1930s Steinbeck met Edward Rickets, a marine biologist, whose views on the interdependence of all life deeply influenced Steinbeck’s thinking. His other early books include To a God Unknown?(1933), the story of a farther whose belief in a pagan fertility cult impels him, during a severe drought, to sacrifice his own life. Tortilla Flat?(1935), a sympathetic portrayal of Americans of Mexican descent dwelling near Monterey, California. In Dubious Battle?(1936) was a strike novel set in the California apple country. The character, Doe Burton, a detached observer, Steinbeck partly derived from his friend