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The Grapes of Wrath Style
Point Of View
The novel is narrated in the third-person voice ("he"/"she"/"it"). What is particularly significant about this technique is that the point of view varies in tone and method, depending on the author's purpose. The novel's distinctive feature is its sixteen inserted, or intercalary, chapters (usually the oddnumbered chapters) that provide documentary information for the reader. These chapters give social and historical background of the mid-1930s Depression era, especially as it affects migrants like the Joads.
These inserted
chapters range from descriptions of the Dust Bowl and agricultural conditions
in Oklahoma, to California's history, to descriptions of roads leading west
from Oklahoma. In the more restricted chapters that focus on the Joads, the
point of view shifts to become close and dramatic. In addition, many of the
inserted chapters contain basic symbols of the novel: land, family, and the
conflict between the migrants and the people who represent...
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