" (Steinbeck, 22) How the turtle struggled to cross the road represents the troubles and hardships that the farmer's and their families would endure as the coming of the great migration approached. In chapter seven, the reader is shifted into the mind of a crooked car salesman who takes advantage of the great migration of farmers to the west by selling broken cars at outrageous prices, "listen Jim, I heard that Chevvy's rear end sounds like bustin" bottles squirt in a couple quarts of sawdust" (Steinbeck, 85) this suggests that car salesmen cheated their customers to gain more money at their expense.
7.What do the faces of the Joad family reveal about them? What are the most important characteristics of Ma and Pa and of the grandparents? .
Old Tom is described having a face, "squared by a bristling pepper and salt beard, [which] was drawn down to the force-full chin the skin was brown [over his cheekbones] wrinkle in rays around his eye-corners from squinting eyes were brown, black-coffee brown" (Steinbeck, 96) this suggest that Pa was a hardworking man, used to being outdoors and laboring over the fields. Ma, "her full face was not soft; it was controlled her hazel eyes seemed to have experienced all possible tragedy and to have mounted pain and suffering like steps into a high calm and superhuman understanding" Steinbeck, 100) is described as a regal woman who carries traces of wisdom in her eyes. This she is for as the story progresses, she unveils her serene sense of leadership and becomes the head of the family because of her ability to keep herself and the family together when the hardships become too great for Pa to handle. Grampa wore "a lean excitable face with little bright eyes as evil as a frantic child's a cantankerous, complaining, mischievous, laughing face" (Steinbeck, 105). He could be described, from this, as a fun loving, yet devious old man whose life spawned from the land on which he lived.
