t their jobs and got a job with small pay,the stress factor for the women just rose. If her husband couldn’t work, then thatmeans the family couldn’t be supported. She would have to raise the childrenand still do the entire houses work with even more worries than before. She hadso find someway to make everything seem alright, even if she had to scrap upfood to make a meal, even if more times then once, she was feeding someoneother than her family. This is the type of character Ma Joad portrays in the book. Even though the time of the depression affected all people, differentsocio-economic groups were affected in different ways. For example, the peoplethat were poor already before this happened took the depression the worsebecause they were forced down to nothing. Middle classes took this also hardbecause they were also affected by the depression. They lost their jobs andwere forced to live in government owned camps. They had to scrap by everyday.The migrants also fit into this category. The bee of depression stung even thehigh social classes. People who had barrels of money couldn’t even afford abarrel alone. Even though they all were from different classes, they all wound upexperiencing the same devastating thing.The average American was completely in shock as anyone else was.They took it as hard as anyone did. People who once worked for factories or forfarms or for some type of company were stuck because most of those peoplespent their whole lives doing that and didn’t know of anything else to do. Sowhen the factories closed down, the people were without job or skill to doanything. The tenant farming Americans, like the Joads, also took it hardbecause the banks took their land, especially when the dust bowl came aroundand the land became barren and unprofitable. The author’s viewpoint of the times was that he supported the presidentand his ways and he shows it in the beginning of the book. He tells the st...
