The Grapes of Wrath | Chapters 27-30 Summary and Analysis
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Mr. and Mrs. Wainwright: migrants who have little left but their pride who share living space in a boxcar with the Joads
Aggie Wainwright: their daughter who will marry Al Joad
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Chapter 27
There was cotton to be picked and willing hands to pick it. The wages weren’t bad and they knew cotton, having picked it back home. They bought a collecting bag and paid for it with the first part of their labor. It was hard, tiring work. They dragged the big bag and filled it. Even the kids helped fill it. And they talked and sang as they worked....
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