Looking at these three chapters and these three chapters only, I realize that things are slowly falling apart for both the Joad family and the Wilson family. First, Connie and Rose of Sharon get into an argument with Ma Joad about the plans they have when they arrive in California. When you are with a large amount of others traveling, the last thing you want to do is to get into an argument. It slowly gets everybody into that argument and soon everybody is getting mad at everybody else. Second, the car breaks down again. Nothing can get you more aggravated than having to keep buying more parts and waisting more time. It had to of gotten the families upset, but they still stay together. Lastly, the granma dies. It is very hard to say goodbye to a character, but the other characters in the book do not seem so affected by their loss. Another bad thing is that they keep hearing the same news that there is no work in California. "I'm goin' back to starve. I ruther starve all over at oncet." (Steinbeck, 189). On their journey they meet this guy who says he is headed back "home" wherever that may be, because he is not making money and he is starved. They also meet another family, well a son and father, who are also headed back because they can not make a healthy living. It is sad to see that people are headed home, and if I were the Joads I would be getting very nervous. Everybody is giving bad reviews, and if you think about it, all the farmers are now coming over to California, so less jobs would be available. It definitely was not the California that is today, not all the land is being lived on therefore you have less space to work. If you have less space to work and more people that can work there, it is going to get very crowded.
Bibliography
Steinbeck, John. The Grapes of Wrath. New York: Penguin, 2002. Print.
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