The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck was published in 1939, and before it was published, migrant workers were living in very harsh conditions in several parts of the United States. The Grapes of Wrath is basically about an Oklahoma Dust Bowl family who suffers various hardships while migrating in California and their struggle to survive in that area.

The Grapes of Wrath can be seen in different views. It can have different meanings. For many people the novel is "on one level it is the story of a family's struggle for survival in the Promised Land. On another level it is the story of a people's struggle, the migrants'. On a third level it is the story of a nation, America. On still another level, through the allusions to Christ and those to the Israelites and Exodus, it becomes the story of mankind's quest for profound comprehension of...