Theme of "The Grapes of Wrath"

The Grapes of Wrath is trying to show the world how difficult it really was for the farmers during the Great Depression. The farmers, if they could not pay for their crops and the mortgages that they had to take out on their houses, were kicked off of their land so the bank would be able to make money. The farmers would not want to leave, but the tractors would come and bump the edge of the house so that it would partially fall down. After their houses were partially down, the farmers had to move so they could survive. There were fliers being circulated saying that there was plenty of work in California, so all of the farmers went out there. Since all of the farmers were moving to California, what little work there actually was was quickly taken. Everyone else need work also, though, so oftentimes the others would offer to do the work for less than the employer had been paying. Some people would be cheated out of jobs, because they could not feed their family on whatever amount the others were offering. Work was extremely competitive then, and many people were easily upset because they could not find enough work to earn enough money to feed their families. They had to move from place to place either to find work, or because the Hooversville they had previously been living in had been burnt down by the people who lived in the actual town nearby. All the people that had been in California before the Great Depression were very upset that all the farmers moved out there, because they thought there were too many people in California now, and they also had a harder time finding work. Some of them were also the business owners that were ripping people off with the extremely low rates of pay, and they were afraid that a rebellion would be started and that they would not have any workers after the rebellion. Farmers had an extremely hard time during the Great Depression, and many did not survive it.