In the USA Today article provided, minimum wage workers and the protests for a higher pay were highlighted. Similarly, a major theme throughout the book, The Grapes of Wrath, was the constant struggle to make ends meet and find a well-paying job. Towards the end of the book, Tom obtains a job while the rest of his family is forced to worry about when they will receive a job and stress about the wellbeing of the family. In today’s society, jobs are easier to come by in my opinion because they do not revolve around agriculture as they did during the Joad’s lifetime. With increasing rent, mortgage, gas and other prices, today’s workforce is struggling to thrive just like the Joads. Connie Rivers a character in The Grapes of Wrath and the husband
