From reading these pages in the book, you can definitely tell that the author is a man, just by the way he described certain things, you wouldn't have to even look to tell that he was a man. But just to give him some credit, he did show the importance of women in the roles of the family, along with other features.
I found it kind of different how they each had a certain place in the family, even when riding in the truck. Even though Rose of Sharon was pregnant and Uncle John didn't want her to, she had to ride on back just because of the honor or whatever of the family. I guess that just shows you how times have changed. Steinbeck keeps describing the family with words like mean, malice, and brooding, usually words to describe people as villians nowadays, but back then I guess it was normal???
Anywho...I'm curious about what's going to happen next to this family. Tom is purposely violating his parole and not telling anyone about it, the preacher keeps going off on strange tangents, and they just drugged "Grampa" to get him to come along to California with them. I'm thinking that hell is going to break loose as soon as Grampa wakes up. That should be interesting. But will Tom get caught? What'll they do if he does?
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