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Steinbeck, John
Monarch Notes
01-01-1963
Introduction To Cannery Row
After The War
Unlike many writers for whom the war seems to serve as a creative
stimulant, John Steinbeck returned from his World War II experiences both
emotionally and artistically exhausted. His plans to shape a novel from the
war never materialized. Disheartened by what he had seen of modern, mechanical
warfare; impressed with the mass indifference and organized chaos of the war
machine; depressed by the moral no less than the physical impact on the
American GI caught up in a vast bureaucracy of death, profiteering, sacrifice,
and selfishness, Steinbeck-who had acknowledged and supported the war
effort-wanted to remember ...