Question

What was one of Steinbeck's primary purposes for writing The Grapes of wrath

Answer 1

they were pace changers and they were that too but the basic purpose was to hit the reader below the belt

Answer 2

In his 1939 novel "The Grapes of wrath", John Steinbeck alludes to the Book of Revelations from "The Bible" , to capture the public’s attention to the dehumanizing essence of capitalism reified with The Great Depresion of his time, and to share his socio-economical views, as he expressed it on a later interview: “to rip a reader's nerves to rags” and "to make the reader participate in the actuality", with the history of America, a family’s struggle for survival, the troubles of Christian life; all relevant and logical with that period of American history.

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