Narrative technique in the novels of steinbeck

Steinbeck was a conscientious in stating about his style and technique as well. What attracts and strikes the reader's attention on reading his works is that he does not fall in line completely with some of the modernists known penchant for stylistic devices such as stream of consciousness, surrealism, filmic devices, painting techniques like Cubism the techniques of contracting the space, linguistic devices of missing connectives etc. In his narrative techniques, he does not deviate altogether from the traditional methods of narration, but he brings in modern devices strictly in accordance with the progression of the story, depiction of characters.