SOURCE: Meyer, Michael J. “Finding a New Jerusalem: The Edenic Myth in John Steinbeck.” In Literature and the Bible, edited by David Bevan, pp. 95-116. Amsterdam: Rodopi, 1993.
In the following excerpt, Meyer considers the Edenic myth in the stories of The Pastures of Heaven.
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