The Grapes of Wrath – Usado

When John Steinbeck’s The Grapes of Wrath first appeared in 1939, it electrified an America still convalescing from the depression. Particularized in the story of the Joad family, the novel is not only a powerful dramatization of the forced migration of the ”Okies” from thei back-foreclosed fields and farms; it is a dramatization as well of the plight of the dispossessed everywhere. Written out of passionate conviction by a master storyteller, The Grapes of Wrath is both a frat social document of an era and a milestone is American fiction. Those who have read it before will find a new impact in the rereading of it, and those of a later generation who come to it for the first time, will have the shock of a major literary discovery