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This exhibit emphasizes on alcohol in America during the early 1930's. In John Steinbeck's The Grapes Of Wrath, Steinbeck illustrates the Joad family who are forced to leave their home of Oklahoma due to the Great Depression. While Steinbeck exposes the reader to the socio-economic issues of the 1930's such as the the Great Depression and the Dust Bowl, he highlights real-life challenges that families such as the Joads dealt with, as they faced these trials and triumphs together.

During the late 1920's to early 1930's the sale and manufacture of alcohol was forbidden. In fact, it was illegal, marking fourteen years of the Prohibition. Nine years after the end of the Prohibituon, Grapes of Wrath was published. The consumption of alcohol reoccurs throughout the novel, which very much symbolizes the anguish that the American people experienced during the thirties. Characters such as Uncle John illustrate a ones' desire to want to escape the reality of America during that period.