"Great Depression" by John Steinbeck

How did The Great Depression influence the works of John Steinbeck?
The purpose of this paper is to discover the role that the Great Depression played on the work of John Steinbeck.
"I must go over to the interior valleys. There are about five thousand families starving to death over there, not just hungry but starving. The government is trying to feed them and get medical attention to them with the fascist groups of utilities and banks and huge growers sabotaging the thing all along the line and yelling for a balanced budget . . . I've tied into the thing from the first and I must get down there and see it and see if I can't do something to help knock these murderers on the heads . . . I'm pretty mad about it." -John Steinbeck (Johnson)
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