The Grapes of Wrath by John Stienbeck includes many conflicts, one of the many is man vs. nature. Every man fought against the "dust bowl." " Every moving thing lifted the dust into the air:" (Steinbeck 342). This quotation describes all the damage the dirt did. The Dust bowl " grew stronger, whisked under stones, carried up straw and old leaves, and even little clods, marking its course as it sailed across the fields" (Steinbeck 343). The dirt destroyed everything in its path leaving nothing but dirt behind. The crops would be ruined and the work would no longer exist. People suffered for water and food. " An even blanket covered the earth. It settled on the corn, piled up on the wires; It settled on roofs, blanketed the weeds and trees" (Steinbeck 344). This dust bowl had ruined everything and left people with nothing. Another conflict within The Grapes of Wrath in man vs. man in this story the tenants vs. owner men. "Some of the owner men were because they hated what they had to do, and some of them were angry cause they hated to be cruel, and some of them were cold because they had long ago found that one could not be an owner unless one were cold" (Steinbeck 345). The owner men came to take away the farmers' land and crops. They would come when the land would get poorer. " You know what cotton does to the land: robs it, sucks all the blood out of it" (Steinbeck 346). This is what the cotton does to the land being taken away from the tenant. It is also what the owner man does- he takes away land and everything they own. " The bank is something else than men. It happens that every man in the bank hates what the bank does, and yet the bank does it" (Steinbeck 348). The bank takes away the land and knows that people hate it but they still do it. The bank is know as a monster. The two described were man vs. nature and man vs. man.
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