In California they got high wages. I got a han’bill here tells about it.
Baloney! I seen folks comin’ back.
– John Steinbeck
The Grapes of Wrath, Chapter 12. In this exchange between a migrant worker and tire salesman, we learn of the deceitful nature of the handbills promising high wages in California. Life in California is not all that it is cracked up to be, it seems. This suggests that migrants may not find the American Dream they are expecting there.