... for half a cent each. "Them wasn't two-for-a-cent candy", says an impressed truck driver, "them was a nickel apiece candy" (Steinbeck, 219) who leaves Mae an extremely generous tip for her generosity. This suggest that truck drivers were paid relatively well, and had good moral value. Business men are represented in this ... Noah feels that his family is nice to him, but that they do not care for him. Tom delivers the message to Ma after Noah leaves, and she says sadly, "Family's falling apart I don't know seems like I can't think no more they's too much." (Steinbeck, 294) Ma is beginnin...

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