Meeting with Muley

When the men reach the farm they meet up with on of Tom’s former neighbors whose name is Muley. He informs them that Tom’s family has moved to stay with his uncle on a different farm. They plan to work picking cotton to make enough money to buy a car so that they can make it to California. Tom asks about Muley’s family and is told that they have left for California already. Casy then says something that I think really shows into his character and personality. He tells Muley that he should have kept his family together. This really shows what Casy thinks is important in life and gives the reader an understanding that Casy has strong values and morals. This kind of contradicts what he has spoken about before of how his life was previously. After the men eat they go to where Muley has been staying to sleep. Casy says that he cannot sleep and this is also very important to his character. He says the reason he cannot sleep is that he is so troubled by what they have learned about the farmers and their land. He is genuinely upset by what is going on in the area and this makes him out to be a very caring character. It seems that he has a lot of morality for other people and this shows that he probably was an excellent priest and that he really did care for the people and the church. Earlier he said that he had stopped preaching because he had a realization about the world and what he was doing. This part of the story seems to prove that he did and still does care a lot about people and he could help them out a lot too. Maybe there will be more in the story relating to Casy, because I think that he has a lot of potential to be an important character throughout the rest of the novel.