that not everything new and convenient to society is beneficial for everyone by showing that all the property that the tractor destroyed stripped the tenants of their identities and their dignity. The tractor may be beneficial for the bank and construction workers but on the contrary, it is anything but beneficial for the rest of society. The power of the bank further proves Steinbeck’s argument because the bank only benefits the members of the bank and harms everyone else. The tenants clearly do not approve of this new way of life. The symbol of the tractor stripped the tenants of their identity, dignity, and the only thing they really knew, their land. The bank leisurely gives the orders to tractor out the land without a thought of the tenants. It is clear that the tenants are upset and defensive when they reply to the tractors presence with “We measured It and broke it up…that’s what makes it ours-being born on it, working on it, dying on it. That makes ownership, not a paper with numbers on it.” Just because there I a new way of life doesn’t mean it is beneficial or helpful to everyone.