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John Steinbeck’s The Grapes of wrath(1939) and Thomas Pynchon’s Vineland(1990) have similarities. In their works the concern with salvation centers on an ecological awareness. The two writers’ ecological imagination is based on the left wing’s radical lyricism of the 1930s and the 1960s which is related to the unity of human fellowship by the strong bonds of family community. They believe that this consciousness can certainly afford a cohesive force to the bewildered individuals alienated from the dominant systems of the modern society. Particularly, in Rose of Sharon’s helpless condition and in her inability to cope with the invisible powers arrayed against her, what preserves her humanity is the recovery of a neighborly symbiosis. In Vineland district, northern California’s logging country, the Traverse-Beckers hold their picnic to celebrate a bond between two Wobblies, and have their momentary stay from the modern political and social confusion. Their absorption in family community as a medium of reconciliation with people versus people gives us a sympathetic perspective on human life. Here we feel ecological lyricism pervading the superiority of human virtues and pleasures to the accumulation of riches and property, of kindness and justice to meanness and greed, and of life-asserting action to life-denying.