Muley introduces the conflict of the story to Joad and Casy who have both been away and missed the migration. ... In chapter seven, the reader is shifted into the mind of a crooked car salesman who takes advantage of the great migration of farmers to the west by selling broken cars at outrageous prices, "listen Jim, I heard that Chevvy's rear end sounds like bustin" bottles squirt in a couple quarts of sawdust" (Steinbeck, 85) this suggests that car salesmen cheated their customers to gain more money at their expense. 7.What do the faces of the Joad family reveal about them? ...

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Vonnegut focuses on the death of a nation and its dream, a similar theme to that of another celebrated American author - Joseph Heller. ... However, unlike Vonnegut and Heller's existential critique, Thompson's Stanislavskian reportage (that is, a kind of "method writing" conducive to great verisimilitude) involves him directly participating in the search for - and death of - the American Dream. ... In terms of setting, this gives us the impression there has been a fruitless resolution to a conflict that has had no impact in society - much in keeping with Vonnegut's philos...

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