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Sources indicate that while reading “The Grapes of Wrath” for a comparative literature course this Wednesday, Victor Shanahan ‘16 cautiously wrote “Symbolism?” in the margin of the book. After initially highlighting only half of the adjacent paragraph, Shanahan proceeded to mark the entire passage, underlining many of the nouns and verbs according to no immediately discernible criteria. “Dead crops = metaphor for society?” Shanahan went on to write hesitantly in the margin of another page, where he had also written the notes “Ma Joad = Rose of Sharon’s foil?” and “American dream = American nightmare?” “Foreshadowing?” he added, sticking a yellow Post-it at the top of the same page. At press time, Shanahan was reportedly reviewing his margin notes and getting a lot out of them.
