The overall conflict, was being able to find work and survive as an entire family. They also struggled with the minor difficulties along the way like sickness, starvation, and death. All the way to California, they were never given a break of struggles and conflicts that stop them from reaching their destination sooner. Right when everything looked good and they were going to be good from then on out, something would happen, like the truck breaking down. The overall conflict was caused by too many people hearing false rumors and heading west in search for work, the stock market dropping, the Great Depression, and many stubborn people wanting proof with their own eyes that there wasn't any work in California.
Some gains from this wide open conflict are seeing your family more often and not having to be disappointed of what they find in California. That is just about it and that is being positive too. The losses heavily out-weigh the gains with the death of family members, becoming broke and without money, not always having a meal for dinner, becoming enemies with all your friends and family, and lots more. This is one of the main reasons Pa Joad is close to death because there is not good outlook in the near future and everything in life kept getting harder and harder. It is horrible to think about what all happened to this family, but when you think harder this is what it was like for many of the families that lived through the Great Depression. They would lose everything and have no other option, but to put their faith and hope in each other and head for where there was a chance of work, food, and a life.
Steinbeck, John. The Grapes of Wrath. New York: Penguin, 2006. Print.
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