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Of all the Ways in Which “The Grapes of Wrath” is Offensive, Nothing is More Offensive than Equating It with the Film “Boyhood” (Part II of II)

The only character I cared about in the "Grapes of Wrath"--and I use the word "care" quite loosely here--was the grandmother. In a book that had no sense of direction--from the beginning, through the middle and right to the end--the demise of the grandmother was the one certainty. Because grandma's death was quite obviously going

Of all the Ways in Which “The Grapes of Wrath” is Offensive, Nothing is More Offensive than Equating It with the Film “Boyhood” (Part I of II)

"The Grapes of Wrath" tells a story of an impoverished family moving from the East Coast to the West Coast in a car during the Great Depression.

It won the Nobel Prize for Literature and is considered by many to be the greatest American novel.

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