IntroductionJohn Steinbeck wrote The Grapes of Wrath about one displaced family, but he was never writing about only one family.The Joads lose land, work, stability, privacy, and certainty. Yet the deeper injury is harder to measure. Again and again, they are forced to ask whether poverty changes what a person is worth, whether protecting one’s own … [Read more...] about The Grapes of Wrath Today: 5 Modern Stories About “I” and “We”