The Grapes of Wrath
John Steinbeck
THE STORY
CHAPTER 9
What would it be like to leave your home forever and be allowed to take with you only
one full suitcase? What would you choose? What could you do without?
That's the crux of the problem for farm families being evicted from their homes.
They have only a small truck or a car to carry all their belongings. What can they
do with the things they can't take along? They could leave them behind, of course,
or better still they could sell them. But one man's favorite workhorse is another's worthless
old nag. So what do you do? You sell the horse for a fraction of what it is worth.
The same is true for the beds, the dressers, the bathtub, and the baby's crib. Nobody
wants that old furniture, anyway. So what do you do? You burn it in a big bonfire.
Wouldn't it hurt you terribly to see the things you love go up in smoke?
NOTE: Steinbeck's interchapter prepares us for what the Joads will be doing in the
next chapter. We'll see their pain as they cast away everything that won't fit in
their truck.
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