The Pearl | Overview
Whether by prayer, quest, or contest, humans have long expressed their desire for wealth and dreams of a better life. Many are the tales about this phenomenon and, more often than not, the tales end in tragedy. This longing for something better is the theme of The Pearl.
Steinbeck was disillusioned in the aftermath of World War II. He realized that none of his heroes—the GI, the vagrant, or the scientific visionary—could negotiate survival in a civilization that had created the atomic bomb. Repentance, as attempted by the characters in his novel The Wayward Bus...
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