Pa Tom : Pa CONCULSION AND RECOMMENDATION

clxxiv Second man : What’s so funny about it? I just been out there I been an’ seen it An’ I’m goin’ back to starve – because I ruther 140D52ONGOWi starve all over at once Dialogue 53 In the camp ground. Pa shows the handbill to the man Pa : But what about this? Second man : I ain’t gonna fret 141D53ONGOWi you. Go on Tom : Wait a minute, buddy. You jus’ done some jackasin’ 142D53TJGOWf You ain’t gonna shut up now. The han’bill says they need men. You laugh an’ say they don’t. Now which one’s a liar? Second man : How many you all got them han’bills? Come on, how many? Dialogue 54 In the camp ground. Pa and some men are talking about the handbills they got Pa : But what does that prove? Second man : Look at em’ Same yella 143D54ONGOWh han’bill - 800 pickers wanted. Awright, this man wants 800 men. So he prints up 5,000 a them han’bills an’ maybe 20,000 people sees ‘em. An’ maybe two-three thousan’ 144D54ONGOWc starts movin’ 145D54ONGOWf , wes’ account a this han’bill. Two-three thousan’ folks that’s crazy with worry headin’ 146D54ONGOWf out for 800 jobs Does that make sense? Proprietor : What are you, troublemaker? You sure you ain’t one a them labor folks? Second man : I swear I ain’t, mister Proprietor : Well, don’t you go roun’ 147D54ONGOWc here tryin’ to stir up trouble. Second man : I tried to tell you folks somepin it took me a year to fin’ out. Took two kids dead, took my wife dead, to show me. But nobody couldn’t tell me neither. I can tell ya about them little fellas layin’ 148D54ONGOWf in the tent with their bellies puffed out an’ jus’ skin on their bones, an’ shiverin’ 149D54ONGOWf an’ whinin’ 150D54ONGOWf like pups, an’ me runnin’ 151D54ONGOWf aroun’ tryin’ to get work – not for money, not for wages – jus’ for a cup of flour an’ a spoon a lard An’ then the coroner came. “Them children died a heart-failure,” he says, an’ put it in his paper. Heart- failure – an’ their little bellies stuck out like a pig-bladder Dialogue 55 In the camp ground. Pa, Casy and Tom are doubting the man’s statements about the handbills

46. Pa

: S’pose 152D55PJGOWa he’s tellin’ 153D55PJGOWf the truth – that fella? 47. Casy : He’s tellin’ the truth awright. The truth for him. He wasn’t makin’ 154D55JCGOWf nothin’ up.

48. Tom :

How about us? Is that the truth for us? 49. Casy : I don’t know.

50. Pa

: How can you tell? clxxv Dialogue 56 In the gas station. The fat man doubts the Joads have any money

51. Fat man