![]() ![]() Noted Steinbeck critic Peter Lisca asserts that Travels with Charley represented "all the baggage of the third-rate journalist who sees only the stereotype and the cliché" believing that Steinbeck's vision of America was overly skewed by his disappointment with changes in American society (233). ![]() According to Scott Simkins, Steinbeck's work becoming "more personal, more subjective" was not only an affront to many critics, but a move that many critics interpreted as an artistic decline (Simkins). Perceptive, revealing, and completely delightful" and the San Francisco Examiner deemed it "rofound, sympathetic, often angry an honest and moving book by one of our great writers," the academic community was less receptive of Steinbeck's highly personal work (qtd. While the Boston Herald wrote Travels with Charley is "ne of the best books John Steinbeck has ever written. Debuting in 1962, Travels with Charley, like much of Steinbeck's work after Grapes of Wrath (1939), garnered a mixed reaction from reviewers and the general public. In Travels with Charley in Search of America, John Steinbeck set out to discover "the speech" of America and to see for himself all of the changes in the United States that he had previously heard about "only from books and newspapers" (Steinbeck 5). ![]()
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