“Steinbeck’s myth of the Okies”

Having read the article, “Steinbeck’s myth of the Okies” by Keith Windschuttle, I was unaware of how much Steinbeck stretched the truth in his novel. While reading The Grapes of Wrath, I imagined the Joad family’s suffering and unfortunate conditions to be similar to all of the migrants migrating from the Midwest to California.