Thus, not only does the story feel historical, it feels like our story. The unfiltered-even brutal-recounting of tragedy, triumph, and the quiet anxiety or numbness that lies between provides a robust depiction of life as we know it. Steinbeck’s vivid description of Salinas Valley and her residents is noticeably familiar, and he conveys this familiarity in such a way that readers seem to join in reminiscence. East of Eden is so reflective of the human experience that even the shocking and unbelievable events therein feel historical. Evidence for Steinbeck’s personal belief in such a claim is unmistakable in his writing. John Steinbeck wrote those words in the novel he identified as his grandest work, East of Eden. “No story has power, nor will it last, unless we feel in ourselves that it is true and true of us.”
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