The novel ‘The Grapes of Wrath’ was a novel met with contempt, loathing, understanding, misunderstanding, discontempt, and in some cases anger. Overall, however, the book was widely successful and still sells thousands of copies per year. This book is full of messages that assault the reader’s perspective and outlook towards others, and challenges the reader’s idea of poverty and their awareness of it. Steinbeck’s novel was a direct representation of the troubles of the people’s he wrote about, though…
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