This study aims at examining the hardships undergone by a family of farmers, the Joads, evicted of the land they have been tied to for hundreds of years after being drastically affected by a drought. Being no longer able to stay in their homeland where they have no other source of survival than the land taken from them, they move to California during the fruit picking season to earn their living. Unfortunately, they experienced there harsher realities epitomized by hunger, rejection and injustice. Through the countless ordeals met by that family, Steinbeck uses the poor economic situation of the working class to unveil the inequalities that exist in the American society, and at the same time demystify the ideals that adorn the American dream.