John Steinbeck: a biography
The writing of The Grapes of Wrath / Robert DeMott
The title of the novel / Jackson J. Benson
The real migrants / John Steinbeck
Other possible endings for The Grapes of Wrath / Jules Chametzky
Major themes in The Grapes of Wrath
Tom Joad as epic hero / Leonard Lutwack
California as a false Eden / Louis Owens
Ma Joad as thematic center / John H. Timmerman
Steinbeck's use of interchapters / Peter Lisca
The forms of The Grapes of Wrath / W.M. Frohock
The drinking metaphor in The Grapes of Wrath / A. Carl Bredahl, Jr.
Folk songs in The Grapes of Wrath / H.R. Stoneback
Biblical imagery in The Grapes of Wrath / Leonard A. Slade, Jr.
Machines and animals in The Grapes of Wrath / Robert J. Griffin and William A. Freedman
Reception and continuing relevance
Steinbeck speaks for all immigrants / Mimi Reisel Gladstein
The weakness of a great novel / Harry T. Moore
Flaws in The Grapes of Wrath / Frederick J. Hoffman
Steinbeck's Pulitzer prize / John Hohenberg
The Grapes of Wrath fifty years later / Studs Terkel
Censorship and The Grapes of Wrath / Lee Burress.
