The car

Do you think that they'll make it all the way? The car is all falling apart, and it seems like something steinbeck would do (to make the car break down, I mean). What do you think?

The Family and things...

So in chapter eight Tom goes home and talks to his parents about being paroled from prison, his mother feels that he could be insane because she once knew someone with a child who went insane in prison. They also fear that he had broken out illegally and he had to reassure them that was not the case. So after that explanation...the point remains that when he came to the house no one recognized him...What does that mean exactly? How could someone not recognize their own son? Have they moved on and completely forgotten him? How would that make Tom feel?

Car salesman

So does the used car salesman have any significance other than to sell the farmers crappy cars?