In this, the Joad Family is taking shelter from a huge flood in a box car, where they later move to an old barn, along with a young boy and a sick man. Many of the people in the car are hungry and sick, especially for the older man, who hadn’t eaten for six days. The ending of the book leaves off with Rose of Sharon, who had just lost a stillborn child not too long before, breastfeeding the dying man, with a very distant smile. Despite the negative critiques, the ending that Steinbeck composed is thoughtfully written, yet can be interpreted in several ways. Still, in The Grapes of Wrath (Grapes), Steinbeck is able to brilliantly show through symbolism in the end of his book how the American Dream is failing the people, that the American people are finding a substitute for what their dreams should be, and the fact that they are happy with them lying to themselves, thus successfully making a statement about the ruins of what was left of America during the
In this, the Joad Family is taking shelter from a huge flood in a box car, where they later move to an old barn, along with a young boy and a sick man. Many of the people in the car are hungry and sick, especially for the older man, who hadn’t eaten for six days. The ending of the book leaves off with Rose of Sharon, who had just lost a stillborn child not too long before, breastfeeding the dying man, with a very distant smile. Despite the negative critiques, the ending that Steinbeck composed is thoughtfully written, yet can be interpreted in several ways. Still, in The Grapes of Wrath (Grapes), Steinbeck is able to brilliantly show through symbolism in the end of his book how the American Dream is failing the people, that the American people are finding a substitute for what their dreams should be, and the fact that they are happy with them lying to themselves, thus successfully making a statement about the ruins of what was left of America during the