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Motions of Society As times change, social thought evolves. People are forced to adapt or be trampled by the wave of transformation. With age, our society has become more efficient at the cost of common concern. As a whole, people have become concerned more with selfish goals than with the well fare of the community. Steinbeck explores this issue in his novel The Grapes of Wrath. He employs a third person narrative to immerse the reader, in full detail, to the social concern for the common well fare and the lack thereof. Primarily, the Joad family is subjected to a callousness born from an intent to siphon profits from the weak and naïve. The Joad family is in that vulnerable position when they read the advertisement for California. The wealthy landowners in California, with their pocket books in mind, send out thousands of embellished advertisements to lure thousands of surplus workers to California, when they need only a few hundred. The Joad family, disillusioned by the false images of grandeur, set off to find their Eden. They are warned on the way by a weathered traveler of the dangers of the California trap. But they shrug off the traveler’s case as a