This is when Rose of Sharon gives her breast milk to an old dying man after her own child was a stillborn. All she did was “lay down beside him...loosened one side of the blanket and bared her breast” (pg 455). This is a fascinating conclusion to the Grapes of Wrath because this event symbolizes the familial bond of the human race, one of which that increases the responsibility and human obligation of providing for each other. Not only that, but Rose of Sharon is a phrase used in the Song of Solomon in the Bible, “I am a rose of Sharon, a lily of the valleys” (Sos 2:1). This book in the Bible refers to the holiness of matrimony and glorifies marital intimacy. This only emphasizes the symbolism of the breastfeeding because holy marital intimacy, in the eyes of the Christian faith, should lead to children, and who gets breastfed, children. The man is getting breastfed, and is therefore reduced to a childlike state. This then makes the image of the human family
This is when Rose of Sharon gives her breast milk to an old dying man after her own child was a stillborn. All she did was “lay down beside him...loosened one side of the blanket and bared her breast” (pg 455). This is a fascinating conclusion to the Grapes of Wrath because this event symbolizes the familial bond of the human race, one of which that increases the responsibility and human obligation of providing for each other. Not only that, but Rose of Sharon is a phrase used in the Song of Solomon in the Bible, “I am a rose of Sharon, a lily of the valleys” (Sos 2:1). This book in the Bible refers to the holiness of matrimony and glorifies marital intimacy. This only emphasizes the symbolism of the breastfeeding because holy marital intimacy, in the eyes of the Christian faith, should lead to children, and who gets breastfed, children. The man is getting breastfed, and is therefore reduced to a childlike state. This then makes the image of the human family