[kennyc]

I love this book. It is one of my all-time top favorites, if not my number one top favorite novel. Steinbeck is amazing! I too love the alternating 'descriptive' chapters. It parallels exactly the story of the land and the people enduring, persevering.

Here is one of the things he said about it:

"I want to put a tag of shame on the greedy bastards who are responsible for this [the
Great Depression and its effects]."
- John Steinbeck about The Grapes of Wrath

a couple of my favorite quotes from the novel:

And the little screaming fact that sounds through all history: repression works only to
strengthen and knit the repressed.
- John Steinbeck

There ain't no sin and there ain't no virtue. There's just stuff people do.
- John Steinbeck

"No, You're wrong there--quite wrong there. The bank is something else than men. It
happens that every man in a bank hates what the bank does, and yet the bank does it.
The bank is something more than men, I tell you. It's the monster. Men made it,
but they can't control it."
-- John Steinbeck from The Grapes of Wrath