History of the grapes of wrath
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The Grapes of Wrath: Historical Background
Writing
Working Days: The Journals of The Grapes of Wrath, edited by Robert DeMott tells of the March-October, 1938 writing of Grapes, a book written in 100 “working days.”
“The new book is going well.
Too fast.
History of the grapes of wrath
I’m having to hold it down. I don’t want it to go so fast for fear the tempo will be fast and this is a plodding, crawling book. So I’m holding it down to approximately six pages a day . . . Anyway it is a nice thing to be working and believing in my work again.
I hope I can keep the drive all fall.
History of the grapes of wrath book
I like it. I only feel whole and well when it is this way.”
“It must be far and away the best thing I have ever attempted. Slow but sure, piling detail on detail until a picture and an experience emerge. Until the whole throbbing thing emerges.” (June 10, 1938)
Method
“Throughout I’ve tried to make the reader participate in the actuality, what he takes from it will be scaled entirely on his own depth or holl