The Cat To The Shadow Tom Joad

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The author use of the simile, “The cat sneaked away toward the open barn shed and passed inside like a shadow” (48), is significant because it reflects the difference between life now and life as it was before the Dust Bowl. The shadow symbolizes the past because it is an optical illusion which always follows its object. By comparing the cat to the shadow, the author shows how everything about the farm is now apart of the past. Even the cat which is still with them, is seen as a fragment of Tom Joad’s

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