Volume : 2, Issue : 12, December - 2013

The Grapes of Wrath – an Aesthetic Discovery

Y. Manikumar

Abstract :

John Steinbeck was a writer who created memorable stories and deeply cared about people, particularly the dispossessed and the persecuted. These people were the subject of his greatest novels. Steinbeck’s critics in the 1930s viewed him as an anti–capitalist and anti–industrialist because of his desire to document the horrid living conditions in the agricultural fields of California’s Central Valley, but, in reality, Steinbeck’s beliefs and attitudes were ambivalent when writing about the complex relationships that drove the social and economic life in the 1930s. This paper focuses on an aesthetic, philosophical influences, agricultural depression, rural sociology and sociopolitical perspective of John Steinbeck’s novel The Grapes of Wrath