Essay Archive - John Steinbeck's`"In Dubios Battle": Summary
John Steinbeck's`"In Dubios Battle": Summary
John Steinbeck's "In Dubious Battle" is a relentlessly fast-paced
novel of social unrest and the story of a young man's struggle for identity,
In Dubious Battle is set in the California apple country, where a strike by
migrant workers against rapacious landowners spirals out of control.
Caught up in this upheaval is Jim Nolan, a once aimless man who finds
himself in the course of the strike, briefly becomes its leader, and is
ultimately crushed in its service.
Jim Nolan's father was a working man driven to his ....
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