ers. I think…that Mack and the boys know everything that has ever happened in the world and possibly everything that will happen. I think they survive in this particular world better than other people. In a time when people tear themselves to pieces with ambition and nervousness and covetousness, they are relaxed. All of our so-called successful men are sick men, with bad stomachs, and bad souls, but Mack and the boys are healthy and curiously clean” (Steinbeck 129).
This is not to say that the author holds Mack up as a success nor is it to suggest that Mack and the boys have no consciou
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