The Grapes of Wrath - A Wandering Soul's Resignation
Muley Graves:
What was the use? He was right, and there wasn't a thing in the world I could do about it....There wasn't nothin to eat, but I couldn't leave. Somethin just wouldn't let me. So now I just wander around and sleep wherever I am. I used to tell myself that I was lookin out for things, so that when the folks come back everything'd be all right. But I know'd it wasn't true. There ain't nothin to look out fer. There ain't nobody ever comin back. They're gone! And me, I'm just an old graveyard ghost. That's all in the world I am.
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The Grapes of Wrath - Displacement and Desperation Amidst Change
Muley Graves:
They come. They come and pushed me off. They come with the cats...the cats, the caterpillar tractors. And for every one of em, there was ten, fifteen families thrown right out of their homes. A hundred folks and no place to live but on the road....One right after the other, they got throw'd out. Half the folks you and me know throw'd right out into the road. The one that got me come oh, about a month ago.
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