Grapes Of Wrath Conflict Analysis

The conflict in the novel between the poor migrants and the business people and Californians serves as a strong criticism of economic injustice. The Grapes of Wrath can be read as a social comment on the economic disasters of the time. The migrants' agrarian way of life has all but disappeared, threatened not only by nature's drought and dust storms, but also by big farms and financial establishments, called "the Bank." At the beginning of the novel, the owners and the banks push the tenants off of their land. Later the arrival of hundreds of thousands of poor people causes conflict in California.
The migrants speak to inconvenience for agents as higher charges, guilds, and conceivable government impedance. The potential for future clash is