Description is considered a good and helpful attribute to a book, I think that there is a fine line between helpful and beneficial and excessive and overused. Although many people wouldn't agree with me, I feel that the description was taken overboard and used way too much. When you describe things so much that the reader can forget whats actually going on, you know you need to back off. I feel that Steinbeck took what could have been a 200 page book and turned it into a huge novel of 400 pages.
John Steinbeck was and still is a popular writer, but to me this book was not very good. He used his past esperiences of being in the Great Depression and what not to help describe his book which is very helpful, yet it is an easy way to over describe things. He definatally did not find the balance inbetween the two and stuggled with that. I would have enjoyed the book more if there was very little description compared to his page long thoughts about one little thing. If I were him I would have cut back on some of it just in case. This was a prime example of when too much descriptive writing is used some of the readers fail to be impressed and to enjoy the book properly like the author intended. This definatally happened to me when I tried to read this book. I would have to take many breaks to regroup and start reading more about the same thing being repeated and continuing to be described over and over again. In the end I was happy I had read the book, yet I had wished it would have been more exciting.
Steinbeck, John. The Grapes of Wrath. New York: Penguin, 2006. Print.
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