The Turtle as Symbol in The Grapes of Wrath

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…struggles long and hard to pull himself over, and no matter how impossible it seemed, he succeeded. Steinbeck draws a large analogy in the third chapter. He exhibits that the struggles with the turtle are no different than that of any man or the Joad family. He also points out through the use of connotation that the turtle cannot endure the troubles caused by man as easily as he can the ones caused by nature.