The Grapes of Wrath/YMMV

• Anvilicious: As stated above (Steinbeck was a socialist).
• Crowning Moment of Awesome: Tom Joad's speech, even Woody Guthrie and Bruce Springsteen thought it was so awesome they both wrote a song about it.
• Crowning Moment of Heartwarming: In the book, Rose Of Sharon breastfeeding a dying man YMMV however, and can be seen as Squick.
  • Or stupid, since breastfeeding requires a complex system of reflexes on the baby's part, which are forgotten after toddler-hood.
    • Why would she know that?
• Everyone Is Jesus in Purgatory: Steinbeck stated that there are five levels to the story. Presumably, one is the tale of the Joads themselves, one is the Depression, one is man's inhumanity to man in general, one is why there are so many biblical references, and one . . . Who knows?
• It Gets Better: The turtle motif in chapter 3 is just one example. While the symbolism is all right, the fact that it gets drug out for a whole chapter is a bit much. It also takes them seemingly forever just to get to California.
  • That truck, in that condition, that overloaded? 30-35 MPH, tops..
• Wangst: The one eyed man, Tom discusses this.