Premium Content Class Consciousness in The Grapes of Wrath
By Timothy Sexton - June 06, 2007
Steinbeck's novel "The Grapes of Wrath" has been the subject of much critical attention. Many of the novel's detractors have concentrated their critiques not upon its literary failings, but rather its politics (Zirakzadeh). At the time of the novel's publication and in the years since, such critics have condemned Steinbeck's expression of the…
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