Through such hardships as the Depression, the Dust Bowl summers, and trying to provide for their own families, which included the search for a safe existence, we find the story of the Joad's. The Joad's are the main family in John Steinbeck's novel The Grapes of Wrath, which he created to give voice to the hundreds of families that found themselves at their absolute rock bottom during the Great Depression of the 20th Century in …showed first 75 words of 3110 total…

…showed last 75 words of 3110 total…08 New York: Grove Press, 1961 Isherwood, Christopher The Tragedy of Eldorado pp.76-79 Pacific Historical Review VIII, 1939 McElderry Jr., B.R. The Grapes of Wrath: In the Light of Modern Critical Theory pp.126-133 New York: Macmillian, 1944 Shockley, Martin Christian Symbolism in The Grapes of Wrath pp.90-95 Antioch Review XVIII, 1956 Sillen, Samuel Censoring The Grapes of Wrath pp.3-7 Los Angeles: Haynes Corporation, 1939 Steinbeck, John The Grapes of Wrath New York: Tedlock and Wicker, 1939