... add to the realistic nature of the story, and he uses a primarily Objective Point of View. This means that he portrays interactions and conversations as viewed by an observer, without focusing on any particular characters or representing their thoughts or motivations. In the intercalary chapters, Steinbeck often varies his style. In some chapters, like Chapter 3, the anonymous narrator uses symbolism to provide the readers with ... narrator often takes the voice of a typical man, such as a corrupt car salesman, expressing the person's individual concerns. Throughout the novel, Steinbeck...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

... determination not pushed over as he physically was. Eventually the turtle flipped himself over and whent on his way. There is symbolism in this small tale, however, for when the turtle first tried climbing over the wall, a wild oat got stuck in his shell, and after being hit by the truck and flipping himself over, "the wild oat head fell out and three ... to cross the road represents the troubles and hardships that the farmer's and their families would endure as the coming of the great migration approached. In chapter seven, the reader is shifted into the mind of a crooked car salesman ...

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• Grade Level: High School