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...... This occurs because of economic and class-based rather than cultural reasons. The long-time residents of America worry just as much about money as tenement residents, but can see no way out of their economic slavery to wealthy agribusiness capitalists. The migrant workers have little educational opportunities and their old way of life is lost, but no new way of sustainable life offers itself, other than migration and working the land of other people
Both works blend fact and fictional styles. Yezierskas work is a thinly disguised autobiography, blending fictional techniques like dialogue with a passionate, personal narrative voice. Steinbecks work is a nonfiction newspaper piece that eventually became one of the greatest works of 20th century Depression-era fiction, and it uses dialogue and other fictional techniques to make the reader care about the families, not merely take note of the facts about their existence, and thus promote outrage and political change. Although both works come to different conclusions about the possibility of hard work leading to advancement, they show the ability of emotion and anecdotal experience to paint a richer picture of the economic difficulties of making a new life in America, or sustaining an older form of sustenance......

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