Summary Of The Grapes Of Wrath Chapter 4

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Chapter 4 (pgs 23-42): As the truck trundled down the highway, Tom makes his way under the hot sun down his family's driveway. After a while he comes across the same torouse for the perous charter. He picks the turtle up in his jacket and continues down the road. He then spies Jim Casy, a former preacher and the man that baptized Tom.
Tom rests under the tree with Casy. Casy tells Tom about his enlightened philosophy that was the product of his conflicted feelings about a women. His conclusions were that“here ain’t no sin and there ain’t no virtue. There’s just stuff people do. It’s all part of the same thing.”Casey believes that man is the Holy Spirit. They come to an agreement and Casey decides to walk back to the Joad farm with Tom.
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