The Role Of The Monster In The Grapes Of Wrath

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More than Men, The Monster The Monster has no feelings, It has no mercy, and you can’t stop it. The Monster is a part of the bank, created by men, but can not be controlled by men, it breathes profits, and it does not matter what is in the way. Why is the system described as a “Monster”?, How does the Monster affect the owners?, and How does the “monster affect the farmers? These are some of the questions through out Chapter 5 in the novel The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck. Why is the system described as a Monster? The Monster controls the economy. It has no mercy and no feelings. If the Monster has to destroy the land, or even someone’s house for profits, it will. It is described as the Monster because it can not be controlled. The Monster is not human so it can not be destroyed, and it will destroy lives, families, and most important the land. “The bank is something else than men…every man in a bank hates what the bank does… The bank is something more than men… It’s the monster. Men made it, but they can’t control it.”(p.35). That is why the system is described as a Monster.…show more content…
The Monster controls everything, even the owners. The owners will do anything for the three dollars a day. They will even destroy a families home to make a little more. “Some owner men were kind because they hated what they had to do, some of them were angry because they hated to be cruel, and some of them were cold… And all of them were caught in something larger than themselves.”(p.32) The owners were controlled by the Monster. When they got on that tractor, they became a part of the Monster. “The man sitting in the iron seat did not look like a man; gloved, goggled, rubber dust mask over nose and mouth, he was a part of the monster, a robot in the seat.”(p.37) The monster controlled the owners, some were cruel and some were not, but they all had no choice, they had to do what the monster wants. This is how the monster affects the
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