John Steinbeck Pathfinder

Essay 1- The American Dream

Carpenter, Frederic I. “John Steinbeck: American Dreamer.” Southwest Review, vol. 26, no. 4, 1941, pp. 454–467. www.jstor.org/stable/43466599.

Gambino, Richard. “Coming Home to John Steinbecks ‘Italian American’ Novel.” Italian Americana, vol. 24, no. 1, 2006, pp. 6–8. www.jstor.org/stable/41426623.

Lobodziec, Agnieszka. "Black male marginalization in early twentieth century American canonical novels: The Great Gatsby and of Mice and Men."

Forum for World Literature Studies 5.2 (2013): 289+. Academic OneFile. Web. 9 Jan. 2017.

Reith, Duncan. "Futile dreams and stagnation: politics in Of Mice and Men: the American novelist John Steinbeck has sometimes been criticised as a sentimentalist.

Duncan Reith uncovers the bleak political pessimism behind his novel of ranch life during the Great Depression, Of Mice and Men." The English Review, vol. 15, no. 2, 2004, p. 6+.

Student Resources in Context, link.galegroup.com/apps/doc/A125878389/SUIC?u=nysl_me_xavierhs&xid=1a8a67c1. Accessed 10 Jan. 2017.

Essay 2- Consider the various roles of the Salinas Valley

Freeman Champney. “John Steinbeck, Californian.” The Antioch Review, vol. 7, no. 3, 1947, pp. 345–362. www.jstor.org/stable/4609222.

Graulich, Melody. “The Salinas Valley: Autobiographical, Critical, and Environmental Musings on John Steinbeck and Louis Owens.” The Steinbeck Review, vol. 4, no. 1, 2007, pp. 33–47. www.jstor.org/stable/41582885.

Laws, David A. “The Settings for the Stories: A Tour of John Steinbeck's ‘Valley of the World.’” The Steinbeck Review, vol. 6, no. 1, 2009, pp. 27–43. www.jstor.org/stable/41582096.