If the prose of Dos Passos , as one critic claims, has "the power of a clenched fist," so does the work of john Steinbeck, who captures another bit of 1930s America in The Grapes of wrath. This novel conveys the plight of dispossessed sharecroppers in Oklahoma, " the Okies, " who head across the mountains and desert for the rich valleys of California, the promised land. Their pilgrimage, which mirrors the travels of immigrants from Europe to the Eastern Seaboard of the United States, strongly Suggests that the American dream of California is no less deceptive than America itself.
If the prose of Dos Passos , as one critic claims, has "the power of a clenched fist," so does the work of john Steinbeck, who captures another bit of 1930s America in The Grapes of wrath. This novel conveys the plight of dispossessed sharecroppers in Oklahoma, " the Okies, " who head across the mountains and desert for the rich valleys of California, the promised land. Their pilgrimage, which mirrors the travels of immigrants from Europe to the Eastern Seaboard of the United States, strongly Suggests that the American dream of California is no less deceptive than America itself.
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