John Steinbeck's 'The Grapes Of Wrath'

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In The Grapes of Wrath’s chapter 9, John Steinbeck develops a tone of solemnity directed towards the preparation the farmers must apply for the trip to California. Steinbeck expresses the look of the atmosphere in order to create images of the men. The expression “hands in their pockets, hats pulled down.”(Steinbeck 87) shows that the men were not joyful toward having to lose their possessions for travel. There are no components of that sentence that connote a positive image. The image of a man with his hands in his pockets and his hat pulled down, portrays an attitude of significance and severity, therefore further developing Steinbeck’s tone of solemnity. Steinbeck also uses distinctive word choice in order

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