tell me about one of the interchapters in grapes of wrath and explain what it means in terms of the story?

Answer 1

Probably the most important interchapter is #23, where Steinbeck describes the contrast between the technical and scientific mastery of modern scientists and the ineptitude of the government and society. Scientists can create techniques to greatly increase food production--but society is so primitive that this increase just bankrupts the farmers. Even worse, the farmers are so desparate for money that they burn or destroy their excess food--even though there are starving people all around. This chapter explains a lot of the misery that the Joads go through, and puts it in a more political perspective.