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Friday, April 27, 2007
Understanding the Need for Pleasure
so in chapter 23, steinbeck discusses all the different ways people in the great depression have learned to have pleasure: story telling, movies, getting drunk, playing music, dancing, have sex, ect. what i wonder is, what is steinbeck trying to show through all this? does he think certain forms of pleasure are better than others? like that getting drunk is a sad way to deal with your problems? is he proud of them, in a way, for persevering in enjoying their lives?
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I think that Steinbeck is trying to show that people were trying to make the best of things by inducing pleasure...
In my opinion, Steinbeck is trying to show us what it was like for these people, trying to survive. Sometimes you do what you have to do to survive hard times.
it seems like they're not just trying to obtain pleasure for pleasure itself, but that they're like trying to keep their lives together and make themselves feel more human.
you gotta do what you gotta do
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