For the majority of family’s in the novel, they were evicted from their land due to large banks or companies demanding their land to become the bank’s new crop land using inhuman tactics such as tractors and chemical treatments. The banks reasoning for this is that the family farmers are doing it in non-optimal fashions that does not produce the highest outcome of profit; thus, their solution is to remove the farmers from their land and instead use science and machines to get the job done faster and broader, because of their vast lengths of land; exemplified when Steinbeck states, “Can't make a living on the land unless you've got two, five, ten Thousand acres and a tractor. Cropland isn't for little guys like us anymore.” (Steinbeck 50). This
