Chapter Nine Flashcards
1
Q
What does Chapter Nine shift the focus away from?
A
The Joads. Instead describes the preparation of farmers in general for the exodus to California.
2
Q
What have the farmer’s hand tools been rendered as?
A
Valueless - technology has taken over.
3
Q
What do farmers begin to see the buyers as?
A
Not as buyers of ‘junk’ but buyers of ‘junked lives’.
4
Q
How are humans yet again seen to take advantage of others in the name of greed?
A
By offering extremely low prices for their belongings.
5
Q
When farmers return home what are they seen to do?
A
Appear disappointed in the amount of money they had fetched.
Also seen to burn heirlooms as there is no room to take them.
