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Ecclesiastes in Grapes of Wrath

In the Grapes of Wrath, the character of Jim Casy is representative of the bibilical text of Ecclesiastes, which is written by someone called the Teacher, or the Preacher.  Through the use of literary elements, an overriding theme, and the vocabulary used by John Steinbeck, this allusion is seen over the course of the novel.

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