... this time of pain and suffering the Joad family in John Steinbeck's classic novel, The Grapes of Wrath, represent the families of thousands as they deal with the hardships of the depression face to face in their own adventure to California. During the 1920's the United States was in a dream world. Business was at an all time high, the stock market became a popular route ... to success and new technological break through were being made on a regular basis (Palmer 2). Inventions such as ... hand radios, vacuums, refrigerators and many others were being celebrated on a daily basis and the...

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