John Steinbeck’s theory of naturalism and his view on human and environmental fate effected many of his most famous works, such as Of Mice and Men, and his most successful book, The Grapes of Wrath. Both his early family life with his mother and father, and his life once he started his own family effected his views on life. His parents died when he was a young man and he was married several times. He has two boys, but he was an older man before he had them, and he had them with his second wife. After that he married another woman who he stayed with until he died at a relatively early age. In his books he had much compassion for his characters.
Take Lenny in, “Of Mice and Men”, Steinbeck had a lot of compassion for him, but because of his Naturalistic beliefs, that did not stop him from writing about Lenny’s death. He did this in many other books as well. He would in clued a character that did not have a what may be called a perfect life, and it was obvious that he had plenty of sympathy for these characters. His sympathy for them, however, would not stop him from writing about a tragic event happening to them, just because nature intended on that happening to them. Steinbeck did what no other writer of his time did, he told storys of what happend to people instead of just having pointless s peaches and paragraphs and sentences and words.
