The Grapes of Wrath The Grapes of Wrath is an eye-opening novel which deals with the struggle for survival of a migrant family of farmers in the western United States. The book opens with a narrative chapter describing Oklahoma, and the overall setting. It sets the mood of an area which has been ravished by harsh weather. “The sun flared down on the growing corn day after day until a line of brown spread along …showed first 75 words of 1684 total…

…showed last 75 words of 1684 total…all the migrants because of the rarity, harsh conditions, and low wages that were a characteristic of migrant work in California. Steinbeck hope to change the way the people viewed the migrant farmers by showing how they were mistreated by people who were more fortunate. Steinbeck hoped the landowners and wealthy people of not only California but of the United States would realize there needed to be changes in social attitudes regarding the migrant workers.