Includes bibliographical references (p. 169-170) and index.
"Works by John Steinbeck" (p. 171).
Contents
Writing of The grapes of wrath / Robert DeMott -- Title of the novel / Jackson J. Benson -- Real migrants / John Steinbeck -- Other possible endings for The grapes of wrath / Jules Chametzky -- 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 -- Forms of The grapes of wrath / W. M. Frohock -- 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 -- Steinbeck speaks for all immigrants / Mimi Reisel Gladstein -- Weakness of a great novel / Harry T. Moore -- Flaws in The grapes of wrath / Frederick J. Hoffman -- Steinbeck's Pulitzer prize / John Hohenberg -- Grapes of wrath fifty years later / Studs Terkel -- Censorship and the Grapes of wrath / Lee Burress.