THE JOADS LEARN ABOUT THE LIES IN THE HANDBILLS ABOUT WORK IN CALIFORNIA

The camp owners just see the Joads as bums or vagrants who can't pay their way and they only want to make money from them one way or another. Describe a situation where someone treated you like they only wanted to make money from you. We learned of a foreshadowing of things to come from the story of the ragged man who left California because he couldn't find work to support his family.