Grapes of Wrath-Fiction vs. Non Fiction

A portrait of the bitter conflict between the powerful and the powerless, of one man's fierce reaction to the injustice of the time, and of a family’s quiet, forbearing strength, The Grapes of Wrath is a landmark of American literature, one that captures the horrors of the Great Depression and the Dust Bowl as it probes into the very nature of equality and justice in early twentieth century America. In the epic tale of …

…Steinbeck’s The Grapes of Wrath “fruitfully” endure through every generation, past and present, for the simple reason that Steinbeck ties the many threads central to American thought and American History, as he provides deep insight to all hopeful future generations. Behind the Joad’s exodus from the Oklahoma Dust Bowl to the “Eden of California”, lies the inevitable human desire to believe in rebirth, individual revival, collective survival, and the possibility of Eden- rediscovered.