the bankers

After reading the first couple of chapters of The Grapes of Wrath I have already determined that it is an awful time in the country. I mean this is kind of assumed but one part really made an impact and really encompassed the idea of how bad of times it is. This part I am referring to is when the bank owners are telling the tenant farmers that they have to leave the land. Obviously the farmers are quite upset by this because it is the only way they have to make money to support their families that are just getting by as it is. The bank people truly treat the farmers like they are nothing. It seems unreasonable and makes the bank workers seem evil in a sense, but they are only doing their jobs as well. You have to consider that they have families too and that the economy is bad for everyone. They are only doing what they are told when they have to evict the farmers from the land. The bank workers have nothing really against the farmers on a personal level, its simply that when times are tough people tend to only look out for themselves. The bankers tell the tenant farmers that they could go to California for work, which is an honorable thing to do considering they have just told the farmers that they are basically out of work for the area they are in. In the course of all of this, the bankers are made out to be cold and emotionless about the whole ordeal, but really they can only do what they are told. For all we know the bank could be laying off employees and they just want to do what they are told so that they can keep their jobs. Although it is an awful thing to have to tell someone that they no longer have a job, it is a job to be done and someone has to do it. The bankers may seem unreasonable but it is just what they have to do.