The Grapes of Wrath | Techniques
The dominant feature of The Grapes of Wrath is Steinbeck's juxtaposition of the story of the Joad family with short chapters that speak in sweeping terms about the plight of the migrant workers during this period. Called "intercalary chapters," these vignettes parallel the action of the main story, and often have some tangential relationship to it. The most famous of these is the third chapter of the novel, in which Steinbeck describes the journey of a land turtle across a highway, dragging its body up one side of the edge of the roadbank, across the asphalt (where cars swerve to...
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