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Novel · 1939

The Grapes of Wrath

John Steinbeck

Aya Saleh · Ink & Ivy

Novel · 1939 · American · Modern

The Grapes of Wrath

John Steinbeck

The Joads leave the Dust Bowl for California and find the promise already sold.

Social realismProtest novelPovertyMigrationSolidarityDignity

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The intercalary chapters turn one family into a people; the last scene — Rose of Sharon nursing a starving stranger — replaces charity with something more scandalous and more human.

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