Nuclear Proliferation

The Grapes of Wrath is usually described as a novel of social protest, for it exposes the
desperate conditions under which one group of American workers, the migratory farm
families, was forced to life in the 1930’s. These were the people who, in the depths of the
greatest economic depression the United States has ever seen, had to abandon their homes
and their livelihoods. They were uprooted and set adrift because tractors were rapidly
industrializing the Southern cotton fields and because erosion and drought were creating
the Dust Bowl in wide areas of Kansas, Colorado, New Mexico, Texas, and Oklahoma. Of
all of the social novels that came out of the great depression, and th...