John Steinbeck - Johnny Bear - Short Story - Reading

Описание: 📖 Reading: John Steinbeck – Johnny Bear

In this Reading with Jimmy session, we enter the dusty, gossip-laden town of Loma in John Steinbeck’s unforgettable short story Johnny Bear. Through the eyes of a quiet observer, Steinbeck reveals the hidden lives and hypocrisies of small-town America — and the unsettling figure who exposes everyone’s secrets.

Part character study, part moral fable, Johnny Bear explores the tension between truth and privacy, innocence and cruelty, and the fragile balance that holds a community together.

✨ In This Reading:

🐻 The haunting presence of Johnny Bear — the town’s unintentional truth-teller.

🌵 The lonely, gossipy world of Loma and its double standards.

💔 The cost of curiosity and moral complacency.

🎙️ Steinbeck’s deep empathy for flawed, ordinary people.

📘 About the Story:
First published in The Long Valley (1938), Johnny Bear is one of Steinbeck’s most quietly devastating short stories. It captures the author’s gift for revealing human complexity beneath the surface of everyday life — told with compassion, irony, and precision.

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