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But like plenty of legends, it doesn’t tell the whole truth: Steinbeck backed up his burst of creativity with a period of careful and calmer editing. This furious effort has since passed into legend not least because the urgency Steinbeck dedicated to his craft is so clearly replicated in the sincerity and passion of The Grapes of Wrath. On 26 October 1938, he wrote: “I am so dizzy I can hardly see the page.” Mercifully, later on that same day, he added: “Finished … and I hope to God it’s good.” I wish that.” And then: “I’m afraid this book is going to pieces. And then: “My nerves are going fast … I wish I could go to a furnished room some place where I know no one and just disappear for a while. “I hope I’m not heading for a nervous breakdown,” he wrote. “For the first time I’m working on a real book that is not limited … It will take every bit of experience and thought and feeling that I have.” I haven’t any choice,” he confided in the diary he kept while writing. “This must be a good book, it simply must. In this image, Steinbeck powerfully dramatizes the desperate plight of Depression-era migrant workers, whom the author felt had been abandoned by society.He also shredded his own.

The most famous image in The Grapes of Wrath is the novel's final one, in which Rose of Sharon Joad, whose baby was recently stillborn, breast-feeds a sickly, starving man on the floor of an old barn.

Tom's actions, although illegal according to the letter of the law, are morally just. Tom is the book's hero as well despite the fact that Tom attacks a policeman at one point in the novel and beats a man at another point, becoming a cave-dwelling fugitive as a result.

Tom Joad is the protagonist, or main character, of The Grapes of Wrath.

Many of the people in the lower Midwest moved elsewhere, hoping to find fertile land on which to make a living. During this time, a long period of drought and high winds affected large parts of the American Midwest, including much of the state of Oklahoma, creating what was called the Dust Bowl.

The Grapes of Wrath takes place during America's Great Depression, which lasted from the Stock Market Crash of October 1929 until World War II began 12 years later.

The three most important aspects of The Grapes of Wrath: Major Symbols: turtle crossing the road vacant houses Ma Joad the truck Major Thematic Topics: love strength in unity re-birth survival Main Characters: Tom Joad Ma Joad Jim Casy Rose of Sharon Joad Pa Joad Considered John Steinbeck's masterpiece, The Grapes of Wrath is a story of human unity and love as well as the need for cooperative rather than individualistic ideals during hard times. John Steinbeck's The Grapes of Wrath, Tom Joad and his family are forced from their farm in the Depression-era Oklahoma Dust Bowl and set out for California along with thousands of others in search of jobs, land, and hope for a brighter future.