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Megan Berkner Period 2 Study Guide Chapter 12-18 The largest contrasts that emerge are the knowledge that all might be as it had seemed. We've reached the point in the novel where failure is evident. The significance of the gas attendants complaint is to show how everyone had struggled, no matter where people went or where from people could not get away from the issues of The Great Depression. People from all over the United States came to this gas station and they were all the same versions of the same thing: poor and belittling to themselves.