The Grapes of Wrath (Magill’s Survey of American Literature, Revised Edition)
At a glance:
- Author: John Steinbeck
- First Published: 1939
- Type of Work: Novel
- Genres: Long fiction, Social realism
- Subjects: North America or North Americans, Suffering, United States or Americans, Social issues, Depression, economic, 1930’s, Despair, Hope, Poverty or poor people, California, West, U.S., Farms, farmers, or farming, Death or dying, Migrant labor
- Locales: California, Midwest (U.S.), Oklahoma
In The Grapes of Wrath, Steinbeck vents his anger against a capitalistic society that was capable of plunging the world into an economic depression, but he does not exonerate the farmers who have been driven from the Dust Bowl of the midwestern and southwestern United States. He deplores their neglect of the land that resulted in the Dust Bowl and which helped to exacerbate the Great Depression.
The book is interestingly structured. Interspersed among its chapters are frequent interchapters, vignettes that have little direct bearing on the novel's main narrative. These...
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