Introduction The actuality of the work. It is well known to us that literature has been a companion of mankind for many centuries and has been sharing aesthetic pleasure with them. Literature, artistic creativity has developed and progressed together with human consciousness and thinking. Literary works are a kind of mirror reflecting the spirit of the times, people's thoughts, dreams and hopes. Every nation has its own literature, that is, its literary school. Every literary school has its leading representatives, through whom the nation feels an infinite sense of pride.
Nowadays and to this day, John Steinbeck's work is the focus of attention of many scientists and readers because it reflects such truths. In order to closely study the author's work, many works have been carried out in literary studies. The author's unique novels "The Pearl", "The Grapes of Wrath", "The Winter of our Discontent" are notable works. In each of his works, the writer summarized his experiences as a result of long observations, thus he made a great contribution to the development of the genre of novel and short story in American realist literature. Reading and studying the works of John Steinbeck has an incomparable place in the education of the young generation.
John Steinbeck - the greatest American prose writer of the 20th century (1902 - 1968), whose work is distinguished by rich ideological and thematic content, the scale of images, the desire reflect truthfully the surrounding reality. Writer, who was concerned about the problems of man and society, in his literary works raised questions about the role and place personality in the life of society, about the suppression of the individual principle collective, artistically marked the conflict between a person and society, between nature and civilization.
The subject of the work is due to the task consideration of the problem of the formation of "group theory" in creativity D. Steinbeck in the 1930s, interpretations from a new perspective of some little-studied aspects of the concept of the Steinbeck group and their reflection writer's works.
