Grapes Of Wrath Movie Analysis

While reading Grapes of Wrath, I wondered about the changes that occurred in the movie. The intercalary chapters are some of the most fascinating parts of the novel, in my opinion, and I am interested how Ford integrated these chapters into the movie and how this integration transformed the movie adaption. The intercalary chapters focus on a community voice instead of the Joads. In these chapters, the readers get a wider view of what’s happening during this time, making these chapters more macrocosmic than the chapters that focus primarily on the Joads and their trials and tribulation. When reading the intercalary chapters, the reader cannot be sure that these chapters are about the Joads in particular, but the movie incorporates these “scene” into the book to correlate …show more content…
These changes transform the book into something slightly different than the novel. For instance, the scene in the movie where the tractor driver blatantly mows down Muley’s home is an intercalary scene in the novel. We do not know whose home was knocked over, and the man who had to do it was cast in a more sympathetic light. However, in the movie, the man was more harsh and abrasive; he did not care about the fact that these were his people as he was only concerned with following orders so that he could receive his three dollars a day. While this is a given that the movie adaption may not follow the novel to the letter, some of the changes could call into the question if the novel or move could be labeled as realist, especially as it pertains to the changed ending. The novel ends with the flood and Rose of Sharon breast feeding a man so that he doesn’t starve. While the novel ends on a more morose tone, the ending is devoid of overwhelming sentimentality, and the way Rose of Sharon breast feeds the man comes across as more