Grapes of Wrath- Banks Taking Land

The Grapes of Wrath was set in a time that money was an issue, and a time where the bank had to take over everything. Representatives were hired to do the hardest part in that time. They were hired to go tell the people that owned the land, or tenants, that they had to leave their land. I could not imagine what people were thinking when they heard this news from the representatives. It would be so hard to leave the land that you had lived on your whole life, and you did not know of anything or any place else. The banks were forced to buy most of the land, because at that point in history sharecropping was not profitable anymore. After buying the land, the banks would then farm all of it. I do not know how some people did it. They got their land taking away, and then the banks just did whatever they thought was best for it. I think it would be very depressing to watch that go on. The representatives from the bank were always ashamed of what they had to do, and they would hate for that to happen to their families. They would always blame what they were doing on the bank. When I thought about this, I realized that the representatives in that time could have just stopped everything that was going on, because they were the ones who were really in control of the bank. They could have changed everything they were doing. The banks never even tried to make deals, they would just say they were sorry, and then take everything. People did not want to hear "sorry" at that point. It was their land! I could not have been a bank worker in that time. You had to be such an unheartful person. I could not take so much land away from these people. I have to look at it and understand that they did it because of the economy, and they did not have any other choice.