After reading just about everything Steinbeck wrote; and the 'forward' his wife wrote in one of his later books. It seemed that Steinbeck was a woman hater and a socialist.
He seemed to imply most women are a succubus and big business is an Incubus to the working person.

But I really liked his stories and his vivid descriptions of a California that is mostly gone now.

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