SOURCE: "The Squatter's Circle in The Grapes of Wrath," in Studies in American Fiction, Vol. 17, No. 2, Autumn, 1989, pp. 203-11.
In the following essay, Timmerman discusses the function and significance of the squatter's circle as a symbol of patriarchal authority and unity.
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