Part 1. Interpretations. The commonplace and the grotesque / Edwin T. Bowden.
From naturalism to the drama of consciousness
The education of the heart in The Grapes of Wrath" / Warren French.
Steinbeck's wine of affirmation in The Grapes of Wrath / J. Paul Hunter.
The Grapes of Wrath: an achievement of genius / Peter Lisca.
The Grapes of Wrath as heroic fiction / Leonard Lutwack.
Part 2. Viewpoints. The Grapes of Wrath / George Bluestone.
The turtle or the gopher: another look at the ending of The Grapes of Wrath / Stuart L. Burns.
A new consideration of the intercalary chapters in The Grapes of Wrath / Mary Ellen Caldwell.
Machines and animals: pervasive motifs in The Grapes of Wrath / Robert J. Griffin and William A. Freedman.
Agrarianism and technology in Steinbeck's The Grapes of Wrath / Horst Groene.
Mother earth and earth mother: the recasting of myth in Steinbeck's The Grapes of Wrath / Joan Hedrick.
The picaresque saint / R. W. B. Lewis.