Grapes of Wrath
In John Steinbeck’s Grapes of Wrath, he brilliantly illustrates Mae’s character develops during The Great Depression.
The book takes place during the 1930s in which the depression and the dust bowl were both their height of destruction On October 29th, the stock market crashed causing the nation to go in a panic state. In the midwest, there were massive sand and dust storms that were causing houses to be covered in dust and animals were suffocating. People who lived on the plains were mostly farmers and the drought and the dust ruined their crops and the depression was also happening so the prices of wheat kept dropping causing many families to leave their home and move to California like the Joad family. Mr. Joad states “We
In John Steinbeck’s Grapes of Wrath, he brilliantly illustrates Mae’s character develops during The Great Depression.
The book takes place during the 1930s in which the depression and the dust bowl were both their height of destruction On October 29th, the stock market crashed causing the nation to go in a panic state. In the midwest, there were massive sand and dust storms that were causing houses to be covered in dust and animals were suffocating. People who lived on the plains were mostly farmers and the drought and the dust ruined their crops and the depression was also happening so the prices of wheat kept dropping causing many families to leave their home and move to California like the Joad family. Mr. Joad states “We