Barry Eichengreen's The Grapes Of Wrath

As told by Barry Eichengreen in his journal article, “Viewpoint: Understanding the Great Depression,” the main cause of the Great Depression is the money problems they are having, and this is in effect of the crops not growing. The people had to move to where the money is or could be obtained. Therefore, there is a major migration across many different borders. The people do not have the money to stay where they are. They must go to where people said the jobs would be. The major area for this is in California where the fields must be picked. Along with the loss of money, the major use of credit comes in. Credit is used in The Grapes of Wrath when the migrant workers must buy supplies they do not have money to get (Steinbeck 372). They have spent much of their money just …show more content…
Lingo tells how Steinbeck left some details out about how the economy is in California (Lingo 355). Steinbeck is said to only show the not so good parts of the Great Depression. It is claimed that there are parts of California that try to help this set of people moving into the land (Lingo 355). The help is in health and living arrangements. These are two of the biggest groups that the people need help in, but Lingo claims that the book did not give justice to this action.
The Grapes of Wrath is an important literature work that shows the worst effects of the Great Depression in the 1930s consistently changing economic and social aspects life. There is a lot of movement happening to find work and a good place for families to settle. The people in each place they settled treat them differently. There are some willing to give them work for a small amount of time, and there are some who would kick them off their land. The migrants stuck with the changes and did what they could to help their families survive. They will push to make the best of the