"The grapes of wrath"

With the migrant farmers coming into the state the owners of large land settlements are tying to get rid of them. Because of what they are doing to get rid of the migrant farmers from the central United States, they are also affecting the owners of smaller farms already in the area. I do not think that they really want to do this but it is simply a byproduct of what they are doing to get rid of the migrant farmers. A lot of the farmers are not able to keep up their farms so their plants or crops are starting to die. This means they have no income therefore they can not continue to keep their farms. Basically it is a big monopoly with caused by the owners of the large farms. It is in this section of the book that the main idea of the book comes out. It is obviously the main idea of the novel because it is related to the title of it. In this section there is a line that reads, “In the souls of the people, the grapes of wrath are filling and growing heavy, growing heavy for the vintage.” To me this means that the people can not deal with the burdens of their lives anymore. They just want to be done and have the fruits of life, which I think is actually quite reasonable. These people have dealt with so much that they deserve to be done with it all. If you think about it the Depression was something that truly affected the lives of all of the people involved in it for the rest of their lives. The “grapes of wrath” have had too much and they just want to reach the vintage of their lives. This event is what defined the people in it and they definitely deserved for it to be over a lot quicker that it was. That line encompasses the entire idea of the novel.