The Winter of Our Discontent (Cyclopedia of Literary Places)
At a glance:
- Author: John Steinbeck
- First Published: 1961
- Type of Work: Novel
- Type of Plot: Social realism
- Time of Work: 1960
- Genres: Long fiction, Social realism
- Subjects: 1960’s, Family or family life, United States or Americans, Parents and children, Crime or criminals, Robbery or robbers, Business or business people, Holidays, Scandal, Easter
- Locales: New Baytown, Long Island (fictive)
Places Discussed
New Baytown. Harbor town on Long Island, New York, in which the novel is primarily set. New Baytown has deep connections to an old seafaring and whaling industry that had made the former fortune of the Hawley family, to which the protagonist, Ethan Allen Hawley, belongs. A Harvard graduate, Hawley works as a clerk at Marullo’s Fruit and Fancy Groceries, a store his family once owned—one of the old- fashioned, neighborhood stores, where he waits on people individually, makes sandwiches for a bank teller across the street, and extends credit on occasion.
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