TheGrapesofWrath（愤怒的葡萄））isanAmericanrealistnovelwrittenbyJohnSteinbeckandpublishedin1939．ThebookwontheNationalBookAwardandPulitzerPrizeforfictionshortlyafteritspublication．Itisfrequentlyreadin

　　The Grapes of Wrath （愤怒的葡萄） ） is an American realist novel written by JohnSteinbeck and published in 1939．The book won the National Book Award and Pulitzer Prize forfiction shortly after its publication．It is frequently read in American high school and collegeliterature classes due to its historical context and enduring legacy．

　　Set during the Great Depression，the novel focuses on the Joads，a poor family of tenantfarmers （佃农） driven from their Oklahoma home by drought，economic hardship andagricultural industry changes．Due to their nearly hopeless situation，the Joads set out forCalifornia．Along with thousands of other"Okies"，they sought jobs，land，dignity，and a future．As might be expected，the image created by the title serves as a vital symbol in thedevelopment of both the plot and the novel's greater thematic concerns：from the terribleoppression （压迫） will come terrible wrath （愤怒） but also the liberation of workers throughtheir cooperation，which are implied but are not stated directly within the novel．

　　Steinbeck wrote："I want to put a tag （标签） of shame on the greedy bastards （杂种） who

　　are responsible for this．"This work won a large following among the working class due to

　　Steinbeck's sympathy to the workers'movement and his accessible prose style．

　　At the time of publication，Steinbeck's novel"was a phenomenon on the scale of a national

　　event．It was publicly banned and burned by citizens，it was debated on national talk radio； butabove all，it was read．"Part of its impact arose from its passionate （饱含深情的） description of the difficultsituations of the poor，and in fact，many of Steinbeck's contemporaries （同代人） attacked hissocial and political views．Bryan Cordyack writes，"Steinbeck was attacked as a propagandist（鼓动家） from both the left and the right of the political views．The most heated of these attackscame from the Associated Farmers of California； they were displeased with the book'