The Grapes Of Wrath Chapter 1 Analysis

In reference to Chapter 1, The Grape of Wrath by John Steinbeck I can feel and visualize the situation of the famers and their families. Their suffering and struggle living in a place full of dust. In the article John Steinbeck stated that "Men and women huddled in their houses, and they tied handkerchiefs over their nose when they went out and wore goggles to protect their eyes", in his quote it describe how difficult it was living in dry and dusty place were the only protection people can use is a handkerchief and goggles. I can describe that Chapter 1 discusses the sufferings of the people during that time especially when I saw the photos taken by Dorothea Lange. She was recognized as the greatest documentary photographer in America. Another quote from Steinbeck, he stated, "the leaves of the young corn became less stiff and erect; they bent in a curve at first, and the central ribs of strength grew weal, each leaf titled downward". As I understand this quote, Steinbeck describing what is in the picture that Dorothea Lange took at that time, which entitled "In the fields" where he mentioned that all the crops are dry …show more content…
The landowner wants to earn more profit so they want the farmers or the people to leave the place due to low profit from tenant farming. On the other hand, the farmers protest because they do not want to leave the place where they spent their entire life. However, the famers cannot stop the landowner to evict them because they failed to pay their rent. In addition, Steinbeck stated, "If a bank or a finance company owned the land, the owner man said, The Bank or the Company needs -wants-insists-must have- as though the Bank or the Company were a monster, with thought and feeling, which had ensnared them". He describes the banks as a monster that took all the properties of the people and took advantage of all the profit earned from the