Chapter 15

Steinbeck uses this chapter as a descriptive chapter. This is because we get to see, through steinbecks description, what the gas stations and restaurants that were on the road to California had to deal with. The employees of these establishments seemed puzzled because of the amount of people that they saw heading west. They were also wanted answers to questions such as, where they come from, and why they are heading west, simply because they had never seen anything like that before. This chapter also gave us a clue as to how people acted and reacted toward the traveling families, through the eyes of the waitress, the cook, and the truck drivers. Toward the end of the chapter we see how a man would like to buy a loaf of bread, for his family, under the normal price, which gives us an idea of how poor these families were and how much they were struggling on this long journey to California.