The book Grapes of Wrath is set during the Great Depression. It's a story of how one family made a trek across the Great Plains from Oklahoma to California in search of a better life. They left their home and lands to be ravaged by an uncaring bank and their tractor drivers. How when they were preparing to leave they had problems with the car dealers and getting a car from them. All these people had a hatred of sorts for the migrating farmers. In this essay we"ll discuss the way they treated the farmers, how they sympathized or how they tried to impede.
To begin the banks dealt with the farmers all over the place, and all in the same general fashion. So it will make it easy for us to discuss them. It really begins with the banks wanting their money from the farmers. And, when they came to collect the farmers didn't have it and weren't growing crops, so the banks threw them off the land and brought in others to work them, most often people to work the tractors. The banks mentality was always along the line of, "If you die, so what? There's always someone else to take your place." They just didn't care about the people or how they lived or died. But, at the same time they didn't have any real hatred of them. Well, I"m sure some did but the majority of them were indifferent towards the way the farmers were. The farmers saw the banks as a big machine or a monster, they created but couldn't kill. Not with a rifle anyways. In the end the banks always won, one way or the other, they got rid of the farmers and took the land.
While the banks were never very personal with the tenant farmers, the car dealers were, a sort of, in your face rude as all hell type person. Straight away, you get the image they put themselves above the farmers. On a sort of pedestal. For one, they hold back on items, they never go out of their way to help someone in need, and always take advantage of the farmer and his situation.
