The book, The Harvest Gypsies, is primarily a collection of news articles that John Steinbeck had written originally for The San Francisco News. In the collection, he illuminates the hardship that migrant workers experienced in the time of the Great Depression in the 1930’s. Steinbeck does this excellently through his usage of vivid imagery and jarring stories of family’s struggling to survive. In the opening chapter, Steinbeck holds migrant workers in high regard even going as far as saying “They are resourceful and intelligent Americans, who have gone through hell" and furthering his point by attempting to dispel many of the migrant workers’ stereotypes that many people at the time had tended to label them with. This ongoing theme of Steinbeck
