The Grapes of Wrath
How does the final scene draw a correlation between the theme of the cycle of life and the theme of change?
Chapter 30
Chapter 30
The whole old man breast feeding on Rose is at play here. Even though Rose's child has just died, she feeds a starving man who can no longer eat solids. Rose becomes a Mary-figure showing intense sacrifice so that another, a stranger, may live a little longer. Is this the beginning of social change? I'm really not sure.