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 During the Dust Bowl era, many families were investing money in cars and new appliances with loans from the bank, so when the stock market crashed, these banks forced many foreclosures of properties forcing farmers off their land. In the Grapes of Wrath many of the characters personify the bank as a monster and blame it for the bad things happening to the land. "If a bank or finance company owned the land, the owner man said, The Bank-or The Company--needs--wants--insists--must have-- as though the Bank or Company were a monster..."(Steinbeck, 31). This quote is a general description of the bank and the first time it is referred to as a monster. After being told that they will have to vacate their house so that tractors can destroy it for a cotton rotation, the man in the tractor states " It's not us, it's the bank. A bank isn't like a man"(Steinbeck, 33). The use of blame towards the bank develops from a saying to a reality as we see that the bank is the reason for all bad in the country, or at least they are the root cause according to Steinbeck.