For many people in America, anger, discontent, and disillusionment characterized the years immediately following World War One. Society was devastated by a global conflict that resulted in destruction and resentment. Survivors during this time period were labeled, ?The Lost Generation.? During these times, literature emerged, attempting to capture the attention of this ?generation.? To many, the works of the most successful writers became a bible to those trying to recover by writing their stories. In search for a way to explain such misfortune, many writers turned to different point of views. One that began to be used was called naturalism. This writing style is defined as a technique of rendering artistic or literary subjects to reproduce natural appearances or actual events which contain a supernatural significance. (?Naturalism? 788.) This style was an explanation for authors to express their inner feelings through their writing. Their novels, at this, would become somewhat autobiographical. In The Sun Also Rises, a novel written by Ernest Hemingway, and The Grapes of Wrath, written by John Steinbeck, these two writers exhibit how fate is inevitably cruel thr

At the close of the novel, a starving stranger needs the family's help. Rose of Sharon knows what she has to do for the man. She pleads, "You got to!" (Steinbeck 473) and smiles, accepting her new duty to the good of all mankind. Steinbeck is writing this novel during the time of the Great Depression, and is explaining his views on the societal changes through the Joad?s eyes. Steinbeck uses his characters more symbolically than Hemingway in this sense. The family is looking for a ?paradise? they may never find, but along the journey (similar to the Biblical exodus), they realize that there is more in life than just looking out for yourself; the good of all mankind.

ough the actions of their characters, which in reality are partial representations of the writers themselves.

In both The Sun Also Rises and The Grapes of Wrath, the writers use naturalism to show that in bad situations and times, fate is always inevitably cruel in some manner. The writers express this inner feeling of theirs through their own novels, molding at least one character to be a partial representation of these feelings themselves.

In The Grapes of Wrath, fate is terribly cruel to the Joad family. A massive drought, which brought about a non-producing farm, caused them to have to move from their homeland in Oklahoma in search of a new settling ground. The hardship created by nature also makes society the Joads' natural enemy. Initially, the migrants' biggest societal enemy is the Bank. This also shows the economic system present in this sense; Capitalism.

Approximately 10 years later, another highly acclaimed writer, by the name of John Steinbeck, had also adapted this new writing style as his

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