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Omg Steinbeck predicted cast rewards in Grapes of Wrath:

$5 a day. I got damn sick of creeping for my dinner—and not getting it. I got a wife and kids. We got to eat. $5 a day, and it comes every day.”

“That’s right,” the tenant said. “But for your $5 a day fifteen or twenty casters don’t get engagement at all. Nearly a hundred people have to go out and wander on channels for your $5 a day. Is that right?”

And the driver said, “Can’t think of that. Got to think of my own kids. $5 a day, and it comes every day.”

Steinbeck’s Grapes of Wrath is in my top-3 books, and is incredibly pertinent today with its themes of the human cost of technological upheaval, and the resiliency of the human spirit.

Interstitial chapters always hit me deep, in a way I never really understood as a kid.  Here’s the true text from the joke I made below: genius.com/John-steinbe...

It’s a book that changed me, and if you haven’t read it recently I suggest you read it now.

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Real link: https://genius.com/John-steinbeck-chapter-5-the-grapes-of-wrath-annotated

i think of this excerpt more often than is good for me🥀

(but otherwise i’m an East of Eden kind of gal)

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Interstitial chapter again - man!

They capture the horrors but also the humanity.  Do you remember the one where the café lady told the migrant father the candies were 2 for a penny (for his two kids) but they were actually 5 cent candies?  Let him keep his pride while making his kids happy.