The truck driver pays his bill and goes out to his truck, only to find this sketchy man milling about. The sketchy man convinces the truck driver to give him a ride, and the two have a somewhat awkward drive together.
The truck driver is really nosy, keeps asking the sketchy man questions, and talks about how he wants to study mechanical engineering one day. The sketchy man has a real name, and it's Tom Joad. Tom drinks whiskey and chitchats with the truck driver. This conflict is brought up when Tom forces the truck driver to decide whose side he is on — that of the worker or that of the owners. This particular conflict will be passionately addressed in the intercalary chapters that examine the roots of the changing social structures present specifically in California.
The setting of the roadside diner will be revisited in Chapter In both chapters, the diner serves as a point of human convergence: the migrant families, the wealthy travelers in their sleek, insulated cars, the truck drivers who cover the roads in the service of higher powers, and the stationary cooks and waitresses all connect in this setting. In the trucker's lament of the loneliness on the road, we begin to hear minor notes of Steinbeck's message of human unity.
It is for human company, not food, that truckers stop at the highway diners. Later in the novel, we will see that the migrants are also looking for a human bond at the truck stops — they are armed with the simple faith that there might be someone inside willing to help them out. What does the truck symbolize in the turtle? Who is Mae in The Grapes of Wrath? How long has Tom Joad been in McAlester?
Summary: Chapter 2. Why does Tom Joad go to jail? How did Tom Joad kill the man? Why is The Grapes of Wrath a banned book? What is the main theme of the Grapes of Wrath? Is The Grapes of Wrath an allegory? Why is Grapes of Wrath important? What is the main conflict in the Grapes of Wrath? What does the dust symbolize in The Grapes of Wrath? Lesson Summary. What does Highway 66 represent in Grapes of Wrath?
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