Chapter five lets the reader learn about the bank, this is what all of the people call "The Monster"(Steinbeck 34). The bank is taking all that is left of what families like the Joad family has. They kick them off of the land they were raised and were living on, along with their relatives and elders. The people can no longer pay for their land because of the depression because they have no money left and have no job because the weather is so bad that the crops can not be harvested, so the families are not being paid. The banks had to take the land because it was a last resort, they had nothing else to do because they themselves had no money. However, I do feel bad and sympathetic for the families that had their land and all they had left taken away from them. The banks, otherwise known as "the Monster", was just doing what they had to do. They were looking out for there own wellbeing. It is a natural instinct that us humans have in order to survive and make do for our own families.
In Chapter seven the car dealers sort of screw over the farming families. They do things like just do quick fixes to the cars. The farming families can not get a break from anything. First, they have lost their land and everything they had, they have no money, and are forced to migrate west out of what they are used to because they have no other option. Then when they go to get a vehicle to make their journey westward they are getting a "lemon" from the car salesmen. However, once again i do understand why the car salemen have done what they did because they were once again just looking out for themselves. The world had come to a time where people were no longer doing what was right, they were doing what they had to do to survive. This is very sad that this is what it came down to.
Steinbeck, John. The Grapes of Wrath. New York: Penguin, 2002. Print.
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