When The Grapes of Wrath was published on March 14, 1939, it created a

national sensation of the devastating effects of the Great Depression of 1929.

Steinbeck's varying works during the years of his greatest popularity and power

in the 1930s were characterized by precisely this kind of irony. John Ernst

Steinbeck began to write The Grapes of Wrath a few years after the Great

Depression of 1929. During this time, Steinbeck gathered information and

experienced the Depression of 1929 personally in his home state of California.

This experience may have led to the realistic portrayal of The Grapes of Wrath.

The Grapes of Wrath, written by John Steinbeck, was written to show the world

how terrible and troublesome life was during the Great Depression of 1929. The

Grapes of Wrath was released at the begging of World War II and just as the

United States of America was coming out of the post-depression era. During

Steinbeck's lifetime, his concern with the problems of the landless laborers

received greatest emphasis is in The Grapes of Wrath. As Steinbeck intended to

work, chronicles the exodus of the Joad family, led by the matriarch Ma Joad,

because early in his career, his style and subject matter seemed to change with

its negativity, the book won the Nobel Prize for Literature and became an instant

depictions of the lives of the workers in his stories.

from the Dust Bowl to the supposed Eden of California. Since living in California

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