Finished The Grapes of Wrath yesterday. I've wanted to read
it for years. For my tastes, it could have been shortened a
hundred pages or more without detracting from the story. I
thought the generic chapters could have been left out
altogether. The implication seemed to be that the story
itself was incapable of carrying the meaning, which was not
true. They reminded me of the whaling essays that Melville
sandwiched into Moby Dick.
It was still a spectacular story. Wonderful characters. No
doubt in my mind as to the Marxist intent. No ambiguity
there. Much better done than the didactic rhetoric in Upton
Sinclair's The Jungle, and at least as good as Dos Passos's
first in his trilogy.
miker
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