Winter of discontent

We feel in the novel "The Winter of Discontent" a new and distinct character for the great novelist John Steinbeck, in which we sense creative control over the artistic form along with sobriety of style and depth of idea. The novel revolves around the crisis of an intellectual who is crushed by the social conditions surrounding him. The author, for the first time, makes the hero of his novel a Harvard graduate, and makes his psychological crisis the primary driver of his connection to the e...