READING: John Steinbeck’s The Grapes of Wrath
2017-07-21
“Wherever human beings dream of a dignified and free society in which they can harvest the fruits of their own labor, The Grapes of Wrath’s radical voice of protest can still be heard.” Robert DeMott says this in his introduction to the Penguin edition of Steinbeck’s depression era novel and its difficult to get past it. Of course, I read the introduction after I’d finished the novel, so the bit about getting past it is a lie. What I mean is I could not find other better words to describe what I was left with once the reading was done. There was churning in theRead More →