"In the souls of the people the grapes of wrath are filling and growing heavy, growing heavy for the vintage"

This quote is from Steinbeck's novel "The Grapes of Wrath" and also it describes the feelings of anger as well as stress that are gurgling up in the hearts and souls of individuals, particularly the farmers and also sharecroppers, that are having a hard time to make it through during the Great Depression. The allegory of the grapes expanding heavy for the vintage stimulates the sense that something monumental will occur, that all of this suffering and hardship will eventually come to a head and there will be an uprising, a projection, a harvest of types. The novel is an effective representation of the devastation wrought by economic and social inequality and the ways in which normal people can group to fight for their rights and also dignity.