The Grapes of Wrath
Steinbeck says of the age of commercial farming, “Men ate what they had not raised, had no connection with the bread. The land bore under iron, and under iron gradually died” (p. 36).
The original land in which they live on. How has it changed over the course of the novel, how was it to begin with. I don't understand what the novel means. Imagine the land as a character in The Grapes of Wrath. What does it look like? What is its past? How does it change during the novel? Is it still alive by the end?