on-loneliness-love-an peace/Sep5,2007.Web 25Feb.2014). In Cannery Row, Andy is lonelier than anyone else in the world. "The poison of loneliness and the gnawing envy of the unlonely" grips him (Steinbeck 1952: 457). Steinbeck opines that inherent loneliness leads to the emotional imbalance. "They's a time of change, an' when that comes, dyin' is a piece of all dyin', and bearin' is a piece of all bearin', an' bearin' an' dyin' is two pieces of the same thing. An' then things ain't so lonely anymore. An' then a hurt don't hurt so bad" (Steinbeck 1939: 268). He vividly captures some sort of perpetual gloom which hangs over the have-nots in his novels. Gradually, the depression grips the have-nots and hijacks their brains from logical thinking.
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In Two Leaves and a Bud, Gangu with his family migrates to Assam as labourers to the British Tea Plantation Company. Dr John de la Havre gives an exact image of Indian landless labourers working for tea plantation. "…a cup of tea is nothing but the hunger, the sweat and the despair of a million of Indians" (Anand 1937: 22). Lalu in Punjab trilogy is an innocent peasant whose poor family is driven out of their land. Loss of his land becomes the loss of his pride and self-reliance. “Lalu’s return to India is a journey into post-war nightmare through a land of poverty, dispossessed peasant, over-crowded towns, blighted villages, despoiled rural economies, industrial depravity, class conflict, violence, police corruption and brutality, bloated landlordism and government tyranny. Lalu observes that the rich and powerful have got richer and more powerful, while the poor and the enslaved have become poorer and enslaved” (Harrex 1977: 108). In this way, Steinbeck and Anand equally seem to infer that economic imbalance can be restored if the have-nots are furnished with land and the right to cultivate …show more content…
The wily fox had bowed before...they swear his saintliness” (Anand 1985:19). Steinbeck is a mouthpiece for the lowly and the lost. Like Karl Marx who calls religion ‘opium of the people’ Steinbeck is very often against the religion. His world is “incontrovertibly a human centered world from which God has departed” (Timmerman 1986: 115). His chief concern is not the religion but the welfare of the have-nots. Expressing anger in a church gathering he says, “Yes, you all look satisfied here; while outside the world begs for a crust of bread or a chance to earn it. Feed the body and the soul will take care of itself” (Bennet, Steinbeck.qtd 1939: n.p.). In The Grapes of Wrath, Jim Casy stands for Jesus Christ. He abandons his profession of preaching and surrenders
In Two Leaves and a Bud, Gangu with his family migrates to Assam as labourers to the British Tea Plantation Company. Dr John de la Havre gives an exact image of Indian landless labourers working for tea plantation. "…a cup of tea is nothing but the hunger, the sweat and the despair of a million of Indians" (Anand 1937: 22). Lalu in Punjab trilogy is an innocent peasant whose poor family is driven out of their land. Loss of his land becomes the loss of his pride and self-reliance. “Lalu’s return to India is a journey into post-war nightmare through a land of poverty, dispossessed peasant, over-crowded towns, blighted villages, despoiled rural economies, industrial depravity, class conflict, violence, police corruption and brutality, bloated landlordism and government tyranny. Lalu observes that the rich and powerful have got richer and more powerful, while the poor and the enslaved have become poorer and enslaved” (Harrex 1977: 108). In this way, Steinbeck and Anand equally seem to infer that economic imbalance can be restored if the have-nots are furnished with land and the right to cultivate …show more content…
The wily fox had bowed before...they swear his saintliness” (Anand 1985:19). Steinbeck is a mouthpiece for the lowly and the lost. Like Karl Marx who calls religion ‘opium of the people’ Steinbeck is very often against the religion. His world is “incontrovertibly a human centered world from which God has departed” (Timmerman 1986: 115). His chief concern is not the religion but the welfare of the have-nots. Expressing anger in a church gathering he says, “Yes, you all look satisfied here; while outside the world begs for a crust of bread or a chance to earn it. Feed the body and the soul will take care of itself” (Bennet, Steinbeck.qtd 1939: n.p.). In The Grapes of Wrath, Jim Casy stands for Jesus Christ. He abandons his profession of preaching and surrenders