When the farmers leave their land, the land becomes vacant, but farm workers are soon upon it with tractors. This is injustice to the land. Steinbeck compares these tractors to horses. He states that tractors are "alive" but "when the motor of the tractor stops, it is...dead." Tractors are "easy and efficient" but nonetheless when the job is done, they are "dead." A horse, on the other hand, "stops work and goes into the barn" but unlike the tractor "there is life and vitality left" in a horse because it is very alive. Horses

Steinbeck explains that even though men continue to work the land, these men have no real connection to their work. These corporate farm workers come to the farmland during the day, drive a tractor over it, and then leave to go home. Such a separation, Steinbeck explains, causes men to lose wonder for their work and for the land. "For nitrates are not the land, nor phosphates; and the length of fiber in the cotton is not the land" but this is the way the farm workers and corporate men see it. They do not understand what the land truly is. They know only "chemistry" and "analysis." They know only the profit that these two can bring.

So animals quickly invade the empty farmhouses and they begin to crumble into the dust. Steinbeck identifies greed as the central cause for the tenant farmers' dislocation from the earth they h

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