Steinbeck's The Grapes of Wrath, he describes, in Chapter 23, how the migrants entertain themselves when they are unable to find work. Some migrants turned to music while others turned to storytelling, alcohol, or listening to radical ministers preach about redemption and salvation.

The tone of the intercalary is that of desperation. "And the people listened, and their quite eyes reflected the dying fire." (Steinbeck, 444). The people will do anything just to be relieved of their boredom, thus the tone of desperation in found to be present. "And when they were all in, waist deep in the water, and looking with frightened eyes at the master, he knelt down the bank and prayed for them..." (Steinbeck, 450). The people will do anything just to feel that they will obtain some form of relief, therefore showing the desperation at hand in the intercalary. "The hard edges gone, and the warm

Dialogue is used to show how migrants are on the verge of going insane because of their current state of living. "'You want to hear this, or not?' 'Well, go on then. Sure, I wanta hear it, but if I was rich...'" (Steinbeck, 446). This quote shows how they are so tired of living in such terrible conditions that they begin to take it out on one another quite easily. The migrants try to amuse themselves, but there is only so much they can take, the madness in getting to them.

The style of the intercalary is description. "The migrant people, scuttling for work, scrabbling to live, looked always for pleasure, dug for pleasure, manufactured pleasure, and they were hungry for amusement." (Steinbeck, 444). Steinbeck tells of how the atmosphere the migrants lived in, repetition like "looked always for pleasure, dug for pleasure, manufactured pleasure" give the reader a heightened feeling of the desperation and anxiety the migrants were feeling.

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