The Grapes of Wrath

'The grapes of wrath' is a portrait of the conflict between the powerful and the powerless, of one man's fierce reaction to injustice, and of one woman's stoical strength, the novel captures the horrors of the Great Depression and probes into the very nature of equality and justice in America. Although it follows the movement of thousands of men and women and the transformation of an entire nation. The book is also the story of one Oklahoma family, the Joads, who are driven off their homestead and forced to travel west to the promised land of California.