Read this excerpt from an intercalary chapter in The Grapes of Wrath,
And at last the owner men came to the point. The tenant system
won't work any more. One man on a tractor can take the place of
twelve or fourteen families. Pay him a wage and take all the crop.
We have to do it. We don't like to do it. But the monster's sick.
Something's happened to the monster.
Based on details in the passage, what is Steinbeck most likely trying to achieve by
including this intercalary chapter?
A. Showing how the Joads are just one family among many suffering from
corporate greed
B. Represerfting the problems faced by migrant farmers through the use of
symbolism
C. Telling the story of a different family with struggles similar to those of
the Joads
D. Illustrating to readers how the farmers are at fault for losing their land to
rich owners