d country, and white in the grey country." This shows the way the earth was washed out and dimming under the abuse of the cotton farming, which stripped the land. Later in the story, Steinbeck continued his use of simple color imagery, typically describing the sun, dust and light. "...there was a layer of dust in the bed, and the hood was covered in dust, and the headlights were obscured with a red flour. The sun was setting when the truck came back, and the earth was bloody in the setting light." In Chapter 6 the imagery of the large red drop of sun lingering and then setting also portrayed this imagery; into Chapter 16, Steinbeck continued to use this sort of color imagery with descriptions of the rolling grey country. He also used animal imagery throughout the novel. The most prominent description of these animals was the highly symbolic land turtle. "The back legs went to work, straining like elephant legs, and the shell tipped to an ang!
             le so that the front legs could not reach the level cement plain"(20)."The old humorous eyes looked ahead, and the horny beak opened a little. His yellow toe nails slipped a fraction in the dust"(21). This sort of description gives the reader an impression of struggling effort with a lack of results, which was part of the hardship the people in the Dust Bowl were experiencing. Steinbeck used the descriptions of the characters themselves to create images, typically giving the people animal qualities. "Joad's lips stretched tight over his long teeth for a moment, and he licked his lips like a dog, one in each direction from the middle"(16). Also, he used imagery to portray the people of the time, and the weariness of their life and emotions:
             Lines of weariness around the eyes, lines of discontentment down from the mouth, breasts lying heavily in little hammocks...the mouths panting, the eyes sullen, disliking sun and wind and earth, rese...