The mood Steinbeck creates in the last paragraph of the chapter is a mood of sadness and distance. Steinbeck uses words such as “saw” (114) to emphasize the increasing distance between the Joads and the house. By using “saw”, it shows that everything they were seeing was their past and their past would slowly fade away until it was nothing more. The author also uses the word “forlornly” (114) to describe Muley showing the sadness and loneliness of the paragraph. Steinbeck creates the feeling that Muley is the only farmer left after the Joads leave for
