David T. Lai Mr. McCarthy American Literature Period 7 12 May 2003 How did The Great Depression influence the works of John Steinbeck? The purpose of this paper is to discover the role that the Great Depression played on the work of John Steinbeck. "I must go over to the interior valleys. There are about five thousand families starving to death over there, not just hungry but starving. The government is trying to feed them and get medical …showed first 75 words of 1536 total…

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