emily’s Reviews > The Winter of Our Discontent > Status Update

i'm so enjoying the humor injected throughout, the musings on money, the vividness of place but:
1. why does he (steinbeck? the protagonist?) talk about women PARTICULARLY THE THIRTEEN YEAR OLD DAUGHTER OF THE PROTAG like that it's soooooooo unsettling
2. the way they're talking about italian people in this book is WILD i'm sure it's accurate of the time but omfg