The Grapes of Wrath Page #6
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- 1940
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DAVIS:
(contemptuously)
You ain't gonna blow nobody nowhere.
First place, you'd get hung and you
know it. For another, it wouldn't be
two days before they'd have another
guy here to take my place.
And the tractor roars into slow motion again...
We see the HOUSE AND TRACTOR. The womenfolks scamper out of
the way as the tractor heads for a corner of the house. It
goes over a ramshackle fence and then a feeble little flower
bed. Muley and the two younger men walk along. Breathing
hard, frightened and desperate, Muley is shouting warnings
at Davis, but the roar of the tractor drowns his voice. The
dog barks excitedly, snarling at the tractor. THE WOMENFOLKS
stand watching, terrified but dead pan, until a cry bursts
from Muley's wife.
WIFE:
Don't! Please don't!
The little girl begins to whimper.
MULEY:
I'm tellin' you!
The TRACTOR moves across the yard, nosing a chair out of the
way, and with a rending of boards hits a corner of the house,
knocking a part of the foundation away. The corner of the
house sinks. MULEY lifts his shotgun, aims it, holds it, and
then slowly lowers it. As he stands looking at what has
happened his shoulders sag. He seems almost to shrink.
The scene dissolves to MULEY, once more in the back room of
Tom's old home, as the sound of the storm continues.
MULEY:
(dully)
What was the use. He was right. There
wasn't a thing in the world I could
do about it.
TOM:
(bewildered)
But it don't seem possible--kicked
off like that!
MULEY:
The rest of my fambly set out for
the west--there wasn't nothin' to
eat--but I couldn't leave. Somepin'
wouldn't let me. So now I just wander
around. Sleep wherever I am. I used
to tell myself I was lookin' out for
things, so when they come back
ever'thing would be all right. But I
knowed that wan't true. There ain't
nothin' to look out for. And ain't
nobody comin' back. They're gone--
and me, I'm just an 'ol graveyard
ghost--that's all in the world I am.
Tom rises in his agitation and bewilderment.
MULEY:
You think I'm touched.
CASY:
(sympathetically)
No. You're lonely--but you ain't
touched.
MULEY:
It don't matter. If I'm touched, I'm
touched, and that's all there is to
it.
TOM:
(still unable to grasp
it all)
What I can't understand is my folks
takin' it! Like ma! I seen her nearly
beat a peddler to death with a live
chicken. She aimed to go for him
with an ax she had in the other hand
but she got mixed up and forgot which
hand was which and when she got
through with that peddler all she
had left was two chicken legs.
He looks down at Muley.
MULEY:
Just a plain 'ol graveyard ghost,
that's all.
His eyes are dull on the floor. The sound of the dust storm
continues strongly.
The scene dissolves to the EXTERIOR OF THE CABIN at night.
It is several hours later and the sound of the storm has
faded out. Now all is silence as first Tom, then Casy, and
finally Muley steps out of the cabin and looks around. There
is still a slight fog of dust in the air, and clouds of
powderlike dust shoot up around their feet. All three men
have wet rags tied over their mouths and noses.
TOM:
She's settlin'.
CASY:
What you figger to do?
TOM:
It's hard to say. Stay here till
mornin' an' then go on over to Uncle
John's, I reckon. After that I don't
know.
MULEY:
(grabbing Tom)
Listen!
(Faint sound of motor)
That's them! Them lights! Come on,
we got to hide out!
TOM:
(angrily)
Hide out for what? We ain't doin'
nothin'.
MULEY:
(terrified)
You're *trespassin'*! It ain't you
lan' no more! An' that's the
supr'tendant--with a gun!
CASY:
Come on, Tom. You're on parole.
A CAR approaches at some distance, the headlights moving up
and down as the car rides a dirt road.
A PART OF THE COTTON FIELD: Muley leads the way.
MULEY:
All you got to do is lay down an'
watch.
TOM:
(as they lie down)
Won't they come out here?
MULEY:
(snickering)
I don't think so. One come out here
once an' I clipped him from behin'
with a fence stake. They ain't
bothered since.
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