The Theme of Travel in The Grapes of Wrath The Grapes of Wrath is a novel that can be read on many levels. The concept of travel is evident at every level of interpretation, from the simplest one, the journey of the poor Joads traveling from Oklahoma to California, to the complex one where it is a spiritual journey......... In By painting a literary portrait of the plight of itinerant farm workers called Okies, Steinbeck describes to America what he perceives as an unjust society. ........ Steinbeck uses the idea of ​​travel as one of the many themes in this novel, be it a spiritual, mental, or physical journey. Consciousness comes in stages, so the structure brings stages of awareness. .......On a deeper reading level, Casy exemplifies a journey of the spirit. He is a former preacher, ........ Perhaps it is more than a coincidence that his initials are also JC. By the end of their physical journey, the Joads have almost lost their family identity. Yet they replaced it with something equally useful: they found kinship with other migrant families. The journey illustrates the themes. When isolated families merge together, a larger family is formed, a family of Men. Numerous characters and events in The Grapes of Wrath help....... So the structure of the journey serves Steinbeck very well. It allows him to show the Joads' progress as a family into the larger migrant family, suggesting humanity's direction for the better.......