THE GRAPES OF WRATH
What's New? For Teachers For Students Steinbeck and the book The Play
Study guide for a collaborative project
of the Alabama School of Fine Arts and
the University of Alabama at Birmingham
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DISCUSSION PROMPTS
for Chapter 15:


 ·  Analyze the couple on their way to vacation in California, the man and the woman who represent ownership in this chapter. How do their character sketches comment on the "fruits" of ownership?

 ·  How do you explain the tension remaining in the diner between Mae, Al, and the truck drivers after the migrants leave?

Related web sites:

Joan Crawford: A site dedicated to the legendary film actress mentioned in this chapter.

Listen to an MP3 fileHear a sample of Bing Crosby singing "Thanks for the Memory."

See a 1926 NASH
diner counter
America from the Great Depression to WWII Photographs from the FSA-OWL, 1935-1945