the Grapes of Wrath, and in the present time, the general public has set the less fortunate apart from themselves without even realizing it. "I'm seeing more apathy on the part of people. I think people used to feel badly. And now, I think people feel bothered. That's a dangerous shift." (Cannon 1) What she means is that at one point in time we used to care for the homeless. We used to try and help them out. Now we don't care and we just want to get rid of them. This is very similar to the situation in the Grapes of Wrath. At first they wanted thousands of people to come and work, but when they actually started coming, the general public wanted to get rid of them. "And the men of the towns and of the soft suburban county gathered to defend themselves; and the reassu

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Approximate Pages = 2 (250 words per page double spaced)