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Gertrude Stein. Gertrude Stein, the American modernist writer, was an international celebrity, an artistic iconoclast, and a self-proclaimed genius. Her experiments in poetry and prose still puzzle structuralist, deconstructionist, and feminist critics.
Symbolism in The Pearl is a tool for John Steinbeck that allows us to see things on a deeper level than what is given in the simple story of a pearl diver who finds a giant pearl. It is through symbols that the author can illustrate his themes about greed, prejudice, and the effects of our wanting material possessions too much.