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Adversity In The Grapes Of Wrath

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In Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck, the theme of “hope and humanity in the face of extreme adversity’ is shown through passage one. The novel opens with a depressing description of the setting, describing “the ruined corn” and how the men would go stand and watch their corn, with the women watching them “to feel whether this time [they] would break” (Steinbeck 3). Since men were the primary providers of material things such as food, money, and shelter during the time period the novel is set in, the women are making sure that their men stay strong for the family, because they know that if the men break, the family will quickly follow. Since the men are seen, by the family itself, to be the glue that keeps them together, the ideology of the

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