Letter To Edith

I can't make up my mind whether John Steinbeck was thanking his beloved teacher or telling her she was wrong about not being able to make it to the bigs. The bigs of writing that is. The ability to make it to a world renowned writer. I still admire Steinbeck's admirance of his teacher. Treating writing as a magical formula sure is an interesting way to approach a couple of words put to gether to create one meaning. I also strongly believe that good writing needs to mean something to be epic. If the writing doe not appeal whatsoever to the reader then there is no point in writing the piece. Sometimes I believe that Steinbeck's attention to detail is a magical formula. His figures of speech are one of a kind; his love for writing apparent; the thirst to write more unmatched. My first impression of Steinbeck was a bored writing who didn't want to make good stories. He just wanted to write incredibly descriptive pieces about.... well nothing significant really. Putting description to the side, take a look what is behind the adjectives. There are worlds of symbols. A myriad of different subjects that apply to the real world. Steinbeck was a product of the magical formula that teacher Edith cooked up in her pot. For Edith to say that making it as a writer was not a walk in the park only made John Steinbeck work harder to make it. "hundreds of rejection bills..." Obviously people didn't like his writing at first, but now it's hard to not want to read furhter in his worlds of magic. Still does he thank Edith or is he trying to prove that he made it as an accomplished writer despite not writing the best short stories in his college classes.