Tackling the pressing issues of the day – many of which still resonate with contemporary Americans – including the widening gap between rich and poor via the Great Depression and unlegislated wages and labor laws, and the environmental catastrophe of the Dust Bowl and how that impacted the lives of everyone in the country, Steinbeck tells his story through the plight of the Joads, a displaced farming family from Oklahoma. – Alternating between creative prose and journalistic-style passages, John Steinbeck composed some of the most vivid and realistic portrayals of the American farmer contending with environmental change at the hands of man in his masterpiece novel, “The Grapes of Wrath.” Image Credit: Dorothea Lange/Farm Security AdministrationīRISTOL, R.I.
Photograph taken by Dorothea Lange in March, 1937, for the Farm Security Administration. Portrait of an 18-year-old mother with two children who are penniless and stranded in Imperial Valley, Calif., after leaving Oklahoma.
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