This was a self obsessed, couple of aged hippies, who need to grow up and join the real world, instead of spending a life time dodging work.
Their misfortunes are apparently (according to them) everyone elses fault and certainly NOT theirs ! Really, I don't think so !
Why at the beginning of the novel they lost their home, land we are never told , but it was everyone's fault, everyone was their enemy the judge, doctor, their best friend. Everyone was wrong