Grapes Of Wrath Paragraph Analysis

In the book The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck it tells the story of how it was like to live in the times of the Great Depression. One paragraph in particular stands out from all the others. This paragraph shows the reality of what it was like to be in the Great Depression and the hard times people had to go through. The Great Depression was a horrible time in American history the government had money problems, people were losing their money or it was lost before they could even get to it. This paragraph has a lot of symbolism and imagery in a small body of words. Now, to analyze this paragraph “The man sitting in the iron seat did not look like a man”(John Steinbeck 5) is the first sentence of the paragraph and has an interesting meaning