The answer for the given question above would be option D. Steinback's primary purpose for writing The Grapes of Wrath is to show how one family's struggle was representative of many others. He wrote this in order to show the poor working and living condition of California's migrant workers in the 1930s.
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D. It was written in memory of someone who died.
"O Captain! My Captain!" was written in memory of Abraham Lincoln.
This poem is classified as a elegy or a mourning poem
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