num_pages: 311
description: Ethan Allen Hawley, the protagonist of Steinbeck’s last novel, works as a clerk in a grocery store that his family once owned. With Ethan no longer a member of Long Island’s aristocratic class, his wife is restless, and his teenage children are hungry for the tantalizing material comforts he cannot provide. Then one day, in a moment of moral crisis, Ethan decides to take a holiday from his own scrupulous standards.Set in Steinbeck’s contemporary 1960 America, the novel explores the tenuous line between private and public honesty that today ranks it alongside his most acclaimed works of penetrating insight into the American condition. This edition features an introduction and notes by Steinbeck scholar Susan Shillinglaw.
language: English
title: The Winter of Our Discontent
titlecomplete: The Winter of Our Discontent
characters: Margie Young-Hunt, Ethan Allen Hawley, Allen Hawley, Joey Morphy, Mary Hawley, Mr. Baker, Alfio Maurello, Danny Taylor, Ellen Hawley
genres: Classics, Fiction, The United States Of America, Nobel Prize, Novels, Classic Literature, 20th Century, Literature, Literary Fiction, American
ratings_count: 46294
places: Long Island, New York, New York (State), New Baytown
publisher: Viking