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第6卷第3期 读 与 写 杂 志 2009年3月 ReadandW ritePeriodical March 2009 Vol_6 No．3 Realism in Steinbeck’sW orks 龙 中莲 (四川师范大学基础教学学院英语教研室 四川i 成都 610068) Abstract：AstheforemostnovelistoftheAmerican Depression ofthe 1930s．John Steinbeck exploredhard into the so— cialproblemsofhistimeand tried to representthem intohisworks．Itisno wonderhisworksare mostlycarried real— ism—— thisliterary mode ofwriting thatgives the impression ofrecording and sometimesreflecting faithfully the actual hfeofthe l930s． Keywords：Realism，JohnSteinbeck，theAmericanDepression，the 1930s 中图分类号：G642 文献标识码：A 文章编号：1672—1578(2009)3—0003—02 John Steinbeck wasbestknown as a Depression writer break of World War II．After that unemployment dropped who wrote aboutthe strugglesofthe migrantworkerswith his rapidly asAmerican factorieswere flooded with orders from o keen awareness ofeconomic and socialproblems．Because of verseas ofr amr aments and munitions．The depression ended hiskeen observationsand powerfuldescriptionsofthe plightof completely soon afterthe United States entry into World War the dispossessed farmers，he notonly revealed a vivid picture IIin 1941． ofthe disastrousAmerica in 1930s．butalso affimr ed the hu— Under this kind ofsocia1．economicalsituation．the once man spirits．His perfect reflections of the 1930s earned him dominating voices such asHemingway，F．ScottFitzgerald had PutitzerPrizein 1940 fTheGrapesofWrath)，andin 1962 a also weakened．As the 1920s gave way to the decade ofthe NobelPrizeforLiterature． GreatDepression，whatF．Scott Fit