has learnt the morals of life. "There is a crime here that goes beyond denunciation.
There is a sorrow here that weeping cannot symbolize. There is a failure here that topples all our success" (Steinbeck 1939: 445).
In fact, there is no perfect moral system in the society. Every belief has its own limitations. It is not applicable to all people, all times and all places. Religions and ethics also do not hold the universality. Steinbeck finds no religions efficient enough to set the social anomalies right everywhere. Thus, a conflict between faithful and hedonistic goes along with the conflict between the 'haves' and the 'have-nots'. He holds a firm conviction that churches provide solace neither to the haves nor the have-nots. The worshiping…show more content… The parameters of paucity have been changing from time-to-time, place-to-place, urban to rural, etc. The main cause of urban have-nots is predominantly detachment from peasantry life. The impoverished rural have-nots are forced to migrate to the big cities to find their livelihood. Their urge for happiness shifts towards the urge of food and shelter. In that process, the open clean spaces of the villages also slip from their hands. Albeit, they survive without fundamental amenities in the clogged, choked, over-crowded cities. The sanitation for the have-nots in the cities is miserable. Even clean air and water eludes the rural have-nots in urban areas. They are compelled to live in sub-human conditions in the big cities with the big…show more content… These external cataclysms internally affect them a lot. It causes inevitable tragic turmoil on their minds. Psychosis of migration, war, strikes, joblessness in the 'Great Depression' and the 'Dust Bowl' make them worse have-nots. It continues in the modern times. They are 'odd man out' in the society. They suffer from the stigma of economic untouchability. This is the reason they develop a sense of alienation from the mainstream of the society. Steinbeck reassures in East of Eden that a man is lonesome animal and as a have-not, he grows lonelier. It is an irony that man more strives for enlarging his social circle, the lonelier he grows. Steinbeck lays emphasis on real human relationship in which there should be no room for any kind of inequality. He brings into limelight the factors, which engender a deadly sense of estrangement and solitude. He simultaneously prescribes solution for the same. Exclusion result in anguish for the have-nots. This one thing is widespread in all have-nots. They all are lonely so unable to experience happiness. Their social relationship also thins out and a perpetual gloom hangs over them. In Cannery Row, the inherent loneliness of the human condition is introduced through the experiences of Andy, a boy of ten. Steinbeck’s characters particularly the have-nots can be seen outwardly consolidating and congregating only in the community crises. They do so because they have an
