Read the following excerpt from an intercalary chapter in The Grapes of Wrath: Carloads of oranges dumped on the ground. The people came for miles to take the fruit, but this could not be. How would they buy oranges at twenty cents a dozen if they could drive out and pick them up? And men with hoses squirt kerosene on the oranges, and they are angry at the crime, angry at the people who have come to take the fruit. A million people hungry, needing the fruit-and kerosene sprayed over the golden mountains. By including this intercalary chapter, what effect is Steinbeck most likely attempting to achieve?

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Levi

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Moshe Moyer · Answer 1

A. Providing commentary, separate from the narrative, which illustrates the wastefulness that occurred during the Great Depression apex