约翰·斯坦贝克是美国现实主义作家,1962年诺贝尔文学奖获得者。他的作品是反映20世纪30年代美国大萧条时期社会生活的风情画,作家以细腻的笔触和敏锐的观察创作这幅画卷,并在其中寄予了对处于水深火热中的普通民众的深切同情。斯坦贝克的作品多关注男性的生存状态,《菊花》是他为数不多的以女性为观照对象的小说之一,这部 John Steinbeck is an American realistic writer, winner of the 1962 Nobel Prize in Literature. His work is a style painting reflecting the social life of the Great Depression of the 1930s in the United States. The writer created the picture with delicate brushwork and sharp observation, and placed deep sympathy for ordinary people in dire straits. Steinbeck’s works pay more attention to men’s living conditions, “Chrysanthemum” is one of his few fictional objects for women, this