We’re sorry. It’s not us. It’s the monster. The bank isn’t like a man.
Yes, but the bank is only made of men.
– John Steinbeck
The Grapes of Wrath, Chapter 5. From once helping tenant farmers by lending money in bad times, the banks are now metaphorical corporate monsters taking away their homes. In this conversation with the banker, the tenant tries to get them to see their personal responsibility, saying that the bank is "made of men."