What is the conflict between landowners and sharecroppers that emerges in Chapter 4? In other words, what problem is Papa having with those who are trying to take his land?
Papa explains to the children about the falling prices on crops due to the depression, and how the Agricultural Adjustment Administration is trying to raise them by paying farmers to farm less or paying them to destroy their crops. It is hardest for sharecroppers, he explains, and their landowners seem to be doing quite well. Cassie muses that this is how Granger can afford his Packard, and they all laugh.
