Defending Steinbeck: Morality, Philosophy, and Sentimentality in East of Eden
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ions and then identifying them with some genuinely great image of our experiences reaches an appalling climax . . . [the novel’s main theme] is hammered home over and over again, to the almost complete destruction of the novel’s life, in endless sermons by innumerable wise men. (44)
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