Ray,<br><br> Indeed. Also, there could be a scene in the movie, whether or not taken from the book. (I don't recall it in either case, but it has been a while since I last read or viewed it.)<br><br>Peggy<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">
On Thu, Sep 9, 2010 at 11:39 AM, Ray Beere Johnson II <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:raybeere@yahoo.com">raybeere@yahoo.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">
I'm familiar with The Grapes of Wrath, but, although I could be forgetting a detail, I don't recall any mention of the way cups or glasses were stored in the book. Even if there were such a scene, anyone who understands the techniques of fiction writing will recognise that it might not be significant. The fiction writer is concerned less with depicting reality accurately (compare dialogue in _any_ story with the real thing) than with selecting elements appropriate to the story _and symbolic elements_ which will reinforce the theme of that story.<br>
Of course, if there is such a reference in The Grapes of Wrath, it might well have been the _source_ of the idea this practice originated in the Dust Bowl, whether or not that assertion is true.<br>
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--- On Thu, 9/9/10, Debbe Hagner <<a href="mailto:debbehagner@yahoo.com">debbehagner@yahoo.com</a>> wrote:<br>
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> The Grapes of Wrath is a novel published in 1939 and written by John<br>
> Steinbeck, who was awarded the Pulitzer Prize in 1940 and the Nobel<br>
> Prize for Literature in 1962. Set during the Great Depression, the<br>
> novel focuses on a poor family of sharecroppers, the Joads, driven from<br>
> their Oklahoma home by drought, economic hardship, and changes in the<br>
> agriculture industry. In a nearly hopeless situation, partly because<br>
> they were trapped in the Dust Bowl, they set out for California along<br>
> with thousands of other "Okies" in search of land, jobs and dignity.<br>
> When preparing to write the novel, Steinbeck wrote: "I want to put a<br>
> tag of shame on the greedy bastards who are responsible for this [the<br>
> Great Depression and its effects]." The book won Steinbeck a large<br>
> following amongst ordinary people and the working class, partly due to<br>
> the book's sympathy to the worker's movement and its accessible<br>
> style.[1]<br>
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