The Grapes of Wrath

by John Steinbeck

“I’ll tell ya. It’s ’cause we’re all a-workin’ together. Depity can’t pick on one fella in this camp. He’s pickin’ on the whole darn camp. An’ he don’t dare. All we got to do is give a yell an’ they’s two hunderd men out. Fella organizin’ for the union was a-talkin’ out on the road. He says we could do that any place. Jus’ stick together. They ain’t raisin’ hell with no two hunderd men. They’re pickin’ on one man.’’

“You’d have yaself a fambly in nine months. I seen you playin’ aroun’.’’ “Ya crazy,’’ said Al. “I’d get myself a job in a garage an’ I’d eat in restaurants——’’ “An’ you’d have a wife an’ kid in nine months.’’ “I tell ya I wouldn’.’’

“I jus’ get panicky sometimes,’’ she said. “I jus’ lose my spunk.’’ “I never seen you when you lost it.’’ “Nights I do, sometimes.’’