Ameerika kirjandus alates I maailmasõjast kuni tänapäevani.
,,Grapes of wrath"- the major breakthrough. Published in 1939. That made him notorious.
Contained a lot of elements that went against puritanian minds. Story of farmers, that is forced
to move from their Oklahoma farm elsewehere, to California. They are forced to move
because of the natural disaster, the dust storms. People were motivated to move. The family
Joads, the story of general generations of the family, how they cope or do not cope with this
transition, from this move from one lifestage to another. Actually there is little plot to speak
of, little adventure. State of small farmers who move from one state to another. Once they are
in California, they find themselves in economic system that is even worse. They now are
almost like slaves without any rights or land. Steinberg style of speaking contains two types
of chapters. There the so called rreallistic chapters that describe the family and so called
interchapters, which depict the economic situation of American agriculture