For Grapes of Wrath and the American Dream, how did the setting affect the characters vision of the dream? Is it sort of brutal because there was starvation, poverty, and death?

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For Grapes of Wrath and the American Dream, how did the setting affect the characters vision of the dream? Is it sort of brutal because there was starvation, poverty, and death?

Answer 1

The experience compelled him to write THE GRAPES OF WRATH, confronting an inconvenient truth about the American dream: hard work and virtue do not guarantee ...

http://www.pbs.org/wnet/americannovel/about/dream.html

The Grapes of Wrath: Concept of the American Dream: Introduction
This WebQuest is designed to use while reading The Grapes of Wrath. It is correlated with the idea of the American Dream and the consequences of a society ...
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