... America had become an industrial power and with the advent of the Spanish American War, and the World Wars to follow, America was to become a world military power. Domestically, however, a new awareness of the cost of this growth became a widespread theme in such works of literature as Stephen Crane's A girl of the Streets and Upton Sinclair's The Jungle. Such literature was often based on social motives ... , and became an influence on society (Owens 1). In The Grapes of Wrath, Steinbeck's social philosophy is expressed primarily by Jim Casy, acted on by Ma Joad, and eventually realized ...

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