The Grapes of Wrath - A Work of History as well as Fiction
The Great Depression took a toll on the people, unlike any other era in history that spread poverty and hunger throughout the people living in a particular period of time. Through such a period of imbalance, the U.S downfall occurred and the resulting stock market crashes acted as a trigger to the already unstable U.S. economy. Due to the misdistribution of wealth, the economy of the 1920's was one very much dependent upon confidence. Steinbeck's depictions of this time period help readers comprehend the human toll of the Depression.
Steinbeck wrote a realistic novel that mimics life and offers social comments, on real life in Midwest America in the 1930s. But it also offers a powerful social note, directly in the intercalary chapters and indirectly in the places and people it portrays. Typical of very many, the Joads are driven off the land by far away banks and set out on a journey to California to find a better life. However, the journey breaks up the family, their dreams are not realized and their fortunes disappear. What promised to be the land of milk and honey turns to sour grapes. In the same way, the hopes and dreams of a generation turned to wrath. Steinbeck did see this mess come together, and the public did put it to the side. Steinbeck places The Grapes of Wrath out there to the public to really prove what was happening in this world. By catch the people's attention, he can tell the people what he thought of the situation. Steinbeck had many quotes in the book. This particular quote confronts the depression:" Banks breath profits; they eat interest money. If they don't get it, they die the way you die without air, without side-meat." Steinbeck, 39. This quote mainly handles with the banks money profits. The banks didn't even care about the customers. Banks gave the people high interest rate during that time, only caring about their money.
Many Americans had to make tough decisions during the time of the Depression. Just to live a reasonable life, The Great Depression was the worst economic slump ever in U.