Essay - Like Most Authors, John Steinbeck Puts A Lot of Himself...

Like most authors, John Steinbeck puts a lot of himself in his novels. In ***** novels we can see self-characters, representing Steinbeck ***** in some ways and also hidden characters that represent his family, his friends and the events of his life. We ***** see how the people he met in his ***** resulted in his interest in some major themes that are seen ***** many of ***** novels. The greatest of these themes is the question of what is real wealth, which this question provoked by Steinbeck's own ***** and childhood and also his interaction with poor farm workers.

The greatest example ***** self-character is seen in East of Eden. ***** A Journal of a Novel: The E*****st of Eden Letter Ste*****beck calls the novel "the story of my country and the ***** of me." The story ***** narrated by Steinbeck as himself, telling the story as ***** Grandson of the main character, Samuel Hamilton. Samuel ***** is a ***** similar to Steinbeck's own fa*****r. Samuel Hamilton has the Irish heritage of his father and has ***** achieved the same kind of success, where Samuel ***** became a blacksmith, well digger and doctor and Steinbeck's own fa*****r was the county treasurer. In both cases ***** is a respectable profession but not one that bought great *****. ***** Hamilton's life is also similar to ***** fathers in that he married and had four children and also ***** they struggled financially in bringing up their children. T***** is in parallel to Ste*****beck's own ***** with the brothers and sisters ***** having the characteristics of his ***** siblings.

In Of Mice and Men, the most obvious hidden character is the self-***** of Steinbeck *****. *****he narrator in ***** story is the voice of Steinbeck and the setting ***** *****'s home of Salinas.

In ***** main ***** of George and Lennie, we can see links to Steinbeck's parents and also to himself. ***** ***** Lennie are ********** who dream of a pl*****ce of ***** own. T***** is similar ***** the struggle ***** h***** parents, who settled in *****, achiev*****g their ***** of finding a place of their *****. The main theme here that ***** the two is the ***** to achieve one's dreams and how th***** often ends in failure. This also extends to the self-character of Ste*****beck. The failure of George and ***** represents ***** fears about achieving his own dreams. ***** relationship of George and Lennie can also be seen as mirroring his relationship ***** ***** wife, with George the strong character representing himself and Lennie the weaker character representing his *****. George's anger at times towards Lennie can be seen as a mirror ***** Steinbeck's re*****ction to his role as protector of ***** wife, with this also s*****ing how he fears that he will not be able to support his ***** fully.

The ***** Tortilla Flat deals with the migrant workers and ***** farmers. Doc Bur*****n is a ***** in the book ***** represents Ste*****beck's ***** ide*****, specific*****lly the ideas