Lighted by the flickering flame of candlelight, Muley cries: "I ain't gettin off. Living like an animal, Graves offers his heartfelt reasons for staying behind, all alone. They are abruptly informed by Muley Graves, a farmer, that Tom's family has been "tractored" off the land by the "bank" and is headed for California. Tom, just released from prison, is walking home with Casy. The contrasts between the two are startling. Fifty years ago American novelist John Steinbeck penned that enormously successful book about a family ordered off their unproductive land, and their struggle to survive a cross-country quest for the "promised land." The Grapes of Wrath was transformed, awkwardly at best, into a movie, losing its emotional impact, and most of its artistic qualities.
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