Essays on Tom Joad

The novel The Grapes of Wrath, the greatest work of John Steinbeck, the Nobel Prize victor in Literature in 1962, traces the hard journey of hapless husbandmans from the Dust Bowl poorness of Oklahoma to the rich farming area of California 's Salinas Valley.The general background of this novel was that: during the early 1930s, a terrible drouth led to massive agricultural failure in parts of the southern Great Plains. These countries were covered with loose, open surface soil. Crops…