“The Grapes of Wrath” is a novel craftily written by John Steinbeck during the natural disaster in the “dirty thirties” known as the Dust Bowl. Seeing as how this was an issue of high importance, Steinbeck decided to dedicate his novel to sharing a story of a typical family and the roughness endured during the times. “The Grapes of Wrath” is a didactic- it was designed to impart education of the Dust Bowl and the daily struggles of an ordinary family during this time. Within this novel is where the true meanings hide. “Home is where the heart is” is an idiom commonly known, and is an excellent idiom to apply to the idea of “home” created by the novel. It implies that home is not defined by an officially owned building with four walls and a
