What is the purpose of the intercalary chapters in Grapes of Wrath?
What is the purpose of the intercalary chapters in Grapes of Wrath? As Steinbeck wrote, the intercalary chapters are in place to evoke an emotional response from the readers of The Grapes of Wrath. Whether they are explanatory, sermon-like, or metaphorical, they approach the reader in a ‘big picture’ way that the narrative chapters cannot. […]