This article deals with Mikhail Bakhtin’s concept of the literary chronotope to an analyses of depiction of the road travel in John Steinbeck’s novel “The Grapes of Wrath”(1939). The analyses illustrates how the work positions itself in relation to the genre of road narratives. The article further observes how the road chronotope is characterized by a detachment between place and time and contributes to figure out some dilemmas associated with American road genre.