Read the following passage from The Grapes of Wrath: The works of the roots of the vines, oof the trees, must be destroyed to keep up the price, and this is the saddest, bitterest thing of all. Carloads of oranges dumped on the ground. The people came from miles to take the fruit, but this could not be. How would they buy oranges at twenty cents a dozen if they could drive out and pick them up? And men with hoses squirt kerosene on the oranges, and they are angry at the crime, angry at the people who have come to take the fruit. A million people hungry, needing the fruit- and kerosene sprayed over the golden mountains. And the smell of rots fills the country. Which of the following most likely represents the historical context reflected in this passage? A. Many owners during the Great Depression destroyed their food as punishment to the migrants for deserting their farms in the Midwest.
B. The tragic irony of food having to be destroyed while people starved led many to question the benefits of capitalism.
C. Many during the Great Depreaaion were unable to reach the orchards where the fruit was growing, which led it all to rot.
D. The people who starved during the time period would not have done so if America had had a capitalism economy.