In chapter seven of John Steinbeck’s Grapes of Wrath, the used car salesmen are portrayed as immoral and heartless. The lack of quotation marks makes the salesmen seem less human. On page eighty-six, Steinbeck depicts both the point of view of the costumers, and the salesmen. The owners of the car dealerships mean solely to take advantage of poor buyers. They do not profit from selling cars that are of value, but rather from …showed first 75 words of 681 total…

…showed last 75 words of 681 total…tries to convince the migrants that he is cutting them a major deal, and he is also making the migrants feel as if he is doing them a big favor by sparing his time to help them. In this chapter, it is evident that there is no compassion in the used car sale business, and that purchasing a car was only one of the many problems migrants had to face in starting a new life.