The main difference between the two authors' fiction is that Steinbeck focused on portraying the difficult lives of people living in rural America, while Cheever preferred to portray the difficult lives of residents of suburban urban centers.
Both authors focused on presenting American society that was marginalized and forgotten by social policies. The two authors explored the difficulties of these people, focusing on different minorities, but being objective in showing the difficulties in which these people lived.
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