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Originally Posted by BelleZora
Perhaps, Issybird, you have led a sheltered life.
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That's a tad personal, don't you think, and unwarranted? Sheltered life or not, and I think it's a mistake to make such an inference based on a negative reaction to a book, one does not have to have experienced something to have empathy, nor does the contrapositive necessarily hold.
Breifly, to me, the characters read "cute" and Steinbeck's attitude toward them was condescending. Personally, and now I'm bringing the personal to it, but I'm talking about myself, I tend more toward Thoreau's "The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation." There wasn't enough desperation in this sanitized Cannery Row for it to ring true to me. No doubt a reflection on something lacking in my background.