During the Great Depression, American people suffered from unemployment, crashing stock markets, and unaffordable daily products. In addition to these problems, people were taken advantage of by corrupt police and unfair business owners. People living through these times learned to judge what is right and what is wrong on their own, rather than relying on others' judgments. Steinbeck expresses the idea that when justice fails people take matters into their own hands through the plot of his books, Of Mice and Men and The Grapes of Wrath.
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