use of imagery in The Grapes of Wrath. He shows the struggles of the Joad family as they

move to California in hopes of finding work and money in a genious story of the life of the

1930's. In this story, he accentuates anger, fear, strength, and camaraderie as a driving

force for families in the early twentieth century. Steinbeck's metaphors affix emotion to the

story and highlight what makes the lower class a respectable group of people. He uses

intercalary chapters to emphasize on particular points and develop mental pictures of the

Joads' life as the way of life in the early twentieth century. According to Steinbeck, life as

the lower class in the early twentieth century was difficult, unfair and the only thing that

kept the people moving on was the determination and hope that life would take a turn for

In the early twentieth century, life as the lower class was very austere in the eyes of

John Steinbeck. Early on in The Grapes of Wrath he tells us of a turtle who is crossing a vast

road in the middle of nowhere when a large pick-up truck drives by and knocks the turtle on

Joads are not alone in their struggles. Steinbeck wants to evince that it is not just one

spread beyond their own yards" (5). The stars are just like the Joads and how they cannot

legs waved in the air, reaching for something to pull it over" (22). This example symbolizes

lower class and how unfair they are to their fellow man. A gas station attendant tells the

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