ach trees, the families cannot depend on the endless supply of fruit. Instead, it even causes harm when Winfield eats too many peaches and leads him into a fit. This event alludes to the book of Genesis when Adam eats the forbidden fruit. Furthermore, it relates to the temptation of the obvious peach tree as to the evident forbidden fruit tree. Similarly, Ruthie once tempted Winfield to flush one of the toilets. Still, Ruthie blames her brother for the incident. On the same hand, Chapter 29 itself is irony of situation. Although many of the migrants were able to escape the dryness of the dust bowl, it becomes ironic how flood causes suffering in California. Moreover, the tragedy alludes to the Great Flood in the bible. Due to the sins of the nation and the monster, God seems to destroy creation as the Flood kills all guilty and innocent people:“And the rain pattered relentlessly down, and the streams broke their banks and spread out over the country…In the wet hay of leaking barns babies were born to women who panted with pneumonia. And old people curled up in corners and died that way… At night the frantic men walked boldly to hen roosts… if they were shot at, they did not run, but splashed sullenly away; and if they were hit, they sand tiredly in the mud.” (592)Steinbeck the scientist is able to implement to the readers the suffering and destruction of the rain.Irony in the Grapes of Wrath, by John Steinbeck, is presented in the unexpected events of the migrants. Even though the Joads seem to reach their destination, it is ironic how the depression continues in the promised land of California. Although happiness and goodness is sought, the opposite exists among the peoples, whether it is Elizabeth Sandry, the Jesus-lovers, or a destructive rainstorm. In the case of the storm, it is verbally ironic in the bible how God promises to never destroy His creation ever again. Yet, Steinbeck probab...
