SOURCE: Owens, Louis. “The Culpable Joads: Desentimentalizing The Grapes of Wrath.” In Critical Essays on Steinbeck's The Grapes of Wrath, edited by John Ditsky, pp. 108-16. Boston: G. K. Hall and Co., 1989.
In the following essay, Owens examines the elements with which Steinbeck balances the potential sentimentality in The Grapes of Wrath.
