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This reads as a patient claim that people do alter, but usually in small, almost unforced ways. The image of wind and scent suggests change that is gradual, felt before it is fully seen, which can be read as a warning against expecting dramatic transformation overnight. It lands in a strained relationship, where someone notices shifts only after time has softened the edges.
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About John Steinbeck
American writer and novelist
John Ernst Steinbeck was an American writer and novelist. He lived in the 20th century and won the 1962 Nobel Prize in Literature. He is known for his fiction and for writing that brought him wide and lasting readership. He was also an independent journalist and a war correspondent during World War II and the Vietnam War. His work was recognized by the Nobel committee for its realistic and imaginative style, with sympathy and social insight at its center.
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Books by John Steinbeck
Of Mice and Men
1937
The Grapes of Wrath
1939
East of Eden
1952
The Red Pony
1937
Cannery Row
1945