THE GRAPES OF WRATH: A Style Critique “To the red country and part of the gray country of Oklahoma, last rains came gently, and they did not cut the scarred earth...” So starts The Grapes of Wrath, one of the most popular books of the twentieth century. Written by John Steinbeck, it tells the tale of a family of Oklahomans en route to California, displaced from their land by the Great Depression. They find many …showed first 75 words of 1411 total…

…showed last 75 words of 1411 total…reader. Steinbeck’s bias is increasingly apparent the further along the story gets, with the negative representation the opposers of the Joads and others get. But this does not make The Grapes of Wrath a bad book, but on the contrary, it makes it a story with many facets, with many sides to see. “Tiny points of grass came through the earth, and in a few days the hills were pale with the beginning year.”