Lisa Busch’s Reviews > The Grapes of Wrath > Status Update

Rushing to the climax.

Picking peaches for a meal. Bass-akwards - and I thought we made it up.

Rotten fruit and starving people. So much like Ireland. I had no idea this had happened here.

A harmonica, a guitar and a fiddle.

Chapter 21 - “and the companies and the banks worked to their own doom and did not know it.”
Chapter 22 -
Dignity and fellowship returns in the camp - exactly what the big machine does not want - and we watch it grow. Hope is reborn in a shower and porcelain toilets are introduced.
Easier to read because it’s not as depressing. But still waiting for the other shoe to drop.

The progression from working the land to owning the land to owning a business that has a farm. From farming to eat to farming for profit to farming for corporate profit and world production. Never thought of it like that but it was palpable as described by Steinbeck.

Didn’t expect to get sucked in entirely. Thought it was going to be a slow drag but I’m in it now. The description of the night worlds reminded me of camping when we went out west but sad and desperate and uneasy. My God life was hard then.