Question

question 4 of 10
which sentence best explains the significance of the novels title, the grapes of wrath?

a. steinbeck lived on a winery of the same name in california.

b. in the last chapter, the personified grapes show their fury for not being picked.

c. steinbeck describes the migrants anger as fermenting.

d. when the migrants drink the bad wine they made, they get angry.

Explanation:

The title The Grapes of Wrath uses the metaphor of grapes (linked to the migrants' struggle for sustenance and dignity) to represent the growing, fermenting anger of displaced farmworkers facing exploitation and hardship. Option A is factually incorrect; Steinbeck did not live on a winery of that name. Option B misinterprets the metaphor, as the grapes symbolize the migrants' anger, not literal personified grapes. Option D is not a core meaning of the title. Option C correctly identifies the central metaphor of the migrants' anger building like fermenting grapes.

Answer:

C. Steinbeck describes the migrants' anger as "fermenting."