The Grapes Of Wrath Literary Analysis

The Grapes of Wrath tells the biting story of the Joad family as it battles to outlive and to preserve its respect in the center of the Great Depression. It is also the story of the social lesson of individuals like the Joads, inhabitant agriculturists who had been misplaced from their land and had chosen to move to California in trust of finding a superior life. John Steinbeck wrote The Grapes of Wrath in 1939, amid the Great Depression, and in response to the enduring he saw of individuals with disadvantages. He wrote regarding Oklahomans that were incapable to continue farming because of the disastrous climate conditions. Particularly, he wrote about the Joad family having to immigrate to California. Steinbeck composed the novel from a Marxist

point of view. Steinbeck's beliefs are seen as similar as those of Marxism and Communism. These beliefs have caused many readers to believe that Steinbeck is supporting communist beliefs by delineating the distinction of individuals included in capitalism, as the owners take advantage of the helpless.
In The Grapes of Wrath, John Steinbeck is seen supporting Marxist beliefs to tell the story of the Joads. The Joad’s encounters illustrate that the upper class mistreats their control of the working class, estranging and abusing the working class by compelling them to work for scarcely sufficient compensation. Steinbeck also shows us how the families who had worked on the land their entire lives became unemployed as the bank repossessed homes to maintain profit.
In The Grapes of Wrath, we see how the Joads lose their house to capitalism because they are unable to pay the landlords the.

“Capitalism produces great social and economical oppression during the American “Great Depression” and characterizes human dignity and spirit in the face of desperation” (Castro, 8). Steinbeck is seen criticizing the economic system that drove farmers to homelessness and extreme poverty. A quote from The Grapes of Wrath that supports this is that "the tenants, from their sun-beaten dooryards, watched uneasily when the closed cars drove along the fields... The tenant men stood beside the cars for a while, and then squatted on their hams and found sticks with which to mark the dust… Some of the owner men were kind because they hated what they had to do, and some of them were angry because they hated to be cruel, and some of them were cold because they had long ago found that one could not be an owner unless one were cold" (Steinbeck 34). Steinbeck gives us these two different groups to convey that when there is a definite bad outcome, there is really no way to face it that can make it easier. Because the inevitable cannot be avoided, the “nice” land owners had to evict the farmers, just like their emotionless counterparts

did.
Throughout the novel, we see "capitalism function as a trap against humanity. Steinbeck argues that the emergence of corporate capitalism led to the starvation and homelessness of many thousands of citizens, as well as to the suspension of their political rights of assembly and speech. In addition, Steinbeck describes what he considers to be the capacities of American folk to redirect history and predicts the evolution of a more collectively oriented nation" (Zirakzadeh 1). In this quote, Steinbeck declares capitalism as a bad system that led many to starvation and homelessness.