clxxvii
85. Pa
: If
fella’s willin’ 175D63PJGOWf to work hard, can he cut her?
86. Man :
Listen, mister. I don’t knows ever’thing. You might go
out an’ fall into a steady job, an’ I’d be a liar. An’ then, you might
never get no work, an’ I didn’t warn you. All I can tell ya, most off the
folks is purty 176D63ONGOWi mis’able 177D63ONGOWe, but
a fella don’t know ever’thing.
87. Pa
: John, you never was a
fella to say much, but I’ll be goldanged if you opened your mouth
twicet since we lef’ 178D63PJGOWc home. What you think about this?
88. John :
I don’t think nothin’ about it. We’re a-goin’ there, ain’t
we? When we get there, we’ll get there. When we get a job, we’ll work,
an’ when we don’t get a job we’ll set on our behin’. Dialogue 64
In the gas station at night. The Joads’ truck, loaded with goods and people, is last gas and servicing before the desert
89. First boy
: You people got a lotta nerve.
90. Tom : What you mean?
91. First boy
: Crossin’ 179D64ONGOWf the desert in a jalopy
like this. 92.
Tom : You been acrost?
93. First boy
: Sure, plenty, but not in no wreck like this. 94.
Tom : If we broke down maybe somebody’d give us a
han’
180D64TJGOWc. Dialogue 65
Inside the truck. Ruthi and Winfield are huddling together
95. Ruthie :
This here’s the desert an’ we’re right in it
96. Winfield
: I
wisht 181D65WFGOWi it was day 97.
Ruthie : Tom says if it’s day it’ll cut you gizzard smack out at
you. I seen a pitcher once. They was bones ever’place.
98. Winfield
: Man bones?
99. Ruthie :
Some, I guess, but mos’ly 182D65RUGOWc cow
bones. 100.
Dialogue 66 In the Inspection Station at night. The Joad’ truck stops for agricultural
inspection
101. Officer
: Well, we got to look over your stuff. You got to
unload. 102.
Ma :
Look, mister. We got a sick ol’ lady. We got to get her to
a doctor. We can’t wait. You can’t make us wait 103.
Officer :
Yeah? Well, we got to look you over. 104.
Ma :
I swear we ain’t got anything. I swear it. An’ Granma’s
awful sick. Look 105.
Officer :
You wasn’t foolin’ 183D66ONGOWf You
swear you got no fruit or vegetables? 106.
Ma :
No, I swear it. Dialogue 67
clxxviii The Joads reach California. Grandma is dead
12. Ma
: Granma’s dead.
13. Tom :
When? 14.
Ma :
Since before they stopped us las’ 184D67MJGOWc
night. 15.
Tom : An’ that’s why you didn’t want ‘em to look?
16. Ma
: I was afraid they’d stop us
an’ wouldn’t let us cross. But I
tol’ her when she was dyin’. I tol’ her the fambly had ta 185D67MJGOWi get acrost. I tol’ her we couldn’t take no chances
on bein’ be stopped.
17. Ma
: So it’s all right. At
leas’ she’ll get buried in a nice green place. Trees and flowers
aroun’ 186D67MJGOWc. She got to lay her head down in California after all.
Dialogue 68
In a town street. Tom is speaking to a policeman and the others stand listening solemnly in the background
Tom : Where’s the bes’ 187D68TJGOWc place to get some work
aroun’ here? Don’t matter what kin’ 188D68TJGOWc
either. Policeman
: If I seen one a them things I must a seen ten thousan’.
Pa : Ain’t no good?
Policeman : Not here – not now. Month ago there was some pickin’ but it’s
all moved south now. Whereabout in Oklahoma you from? Tom
: Sallisaw. Policeman
: I come out from Cherokee County – two years ago. Rosasharn
: Why, Connie’s folks from Cherokee County. Policeman
: Okay, ma’am, let’s don’t go into it. I already met about a
hundred firs’ 189D68ONGOWc cousins an’ it mus’ 190D68ONGOWc
be five
hundred
secon’ 191D68ONGOWc
. But this is what I got to tell you, don’t try to park inn town tonight. Keep on out to that camp. If we
catch you in town after dark we got to lock you up. Don’t forget. Pa
: But what we gonna do?
Policeman : Pop, that just ain’t up to me. But I don’t min’
19268ONGOWc tellin’
you, the guy they ought to lock up is the guy that sent out them things.
Dialogue 69
Outside the Joads’ tent. The Ma is cooking surround by fifteen barefooted children in hunger
107. Ma
: Well, it’s a good thing some a you ain’t hungry, because
they ain’t enough to go all the way roun’.
108. Girl
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