<span>“You’re buying sorrow that
can’t talk” means that the seller is experiencing hardships and that selling
his possessions is similar to selling his life. </span>
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<span>In the book’s context, it
depicts the bitterness of the farmers towards the people who are purchasing his
possessions at such a cheap price – lower than how much he had bought them for –
in a time when the people should have been showing their support to each other.</span>
He could be recalling his childhood
