According to this political cartoon, “the open road,” who is on the road to liberty, equality, and justice?

To make his essay "Symptoms" more relatable to readers in the United States, most of whom have never experienced war firsthand, John Steinbeck uses the analogy of childbirth. By comparing the soldiers’’ experiences at war with a mother’s experiences during childbirth, Steinbeck draws a parallel between the physical pain and the endurance that both display. He also notes that, just like a mother is able to forget the reality of the pain associated with childbirth and can go on to have more children, a soldier does not talk about his experiences at war because his body and mind attempt to block out those painful and traumatic memories. Steinbeck uses this analogy to make the war experiences more personal and more relatable to his readers because he knows that although most of his readers have not been in a war, they probably understand or even relate to the pain faced by a woman during childbirth.

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