Market Structure In John Steinbeck's The Grapes Of Wrath

The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck shows the failure of a Market structure pertaining to pure competition. This market structure is when you have a market of firms that sell similar products or services that has a set market price at which people are willing to pay. In the first part of this book, we find that the wheat farmers are in a pure competition, and because of that they move to Oklahoma to try and make more money which fails when they try to strip the land and in the process cause the land harm enough not to be able to produce anymore crops of any kind.
Workers also start to compete for jobs that pay regular prices and the wages get lower as the production worsens. People still get paid the same amount regardless of the quality