![]() This process is experimental and the keywords may be updated as the learning algorithm improves. These keywords were added by machine and not by the authors. He vilifies the machines that plough under the barren old farms: ‘The tractors came over the roads and into the fields, great crawlers moving like insects, having the incredible strength of insects.’ 1 Keywords ![]() No more than London is Steinbeck willing to rail for long at the cosmic order but, where man has intruded on the ability of other men to make a living from the land, his wrath is like that of an Old Testament prophet. The system they typify is the chief object of Steinbeck’s ire. ![]() The first is a cosmic antagonist: the wind and dust evoked so remarkably in the opening chapter, reminiscent of the disembodied antagonist of Eliot’s Waste Land and answered in the end, as in that poem, by rain a rain which in this case is not benevolent but causative of another natural antagonist, flood. The small farmers of Oklahoma and adjacent states have been dispossessed of their land by drought and the recalling of mortgages. The animating myth is that of the Garden and man’s struggle to get back to it. The book presents the classic tale of the Depression in the Sun-belt. ![]() The Grapes of Wrath (1939) may not be Steinbeck’s best novel, but it is his grandest and most celebrated, and on it his reputation will rise and fall. ![]()
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