... prose. In Gwendolyn Bennett's "Lines Written at the Grave of Alexandre Dumas," Bennett speaks of cemeteries as "places for departed souls [and] roving spirits."92 In The Grapes of Wrath, John Steinbeck tells the story of a migrant family traveling with the former preacher, Jim Casy, who is seen by Ma and the other women as a kind of messiah. Their strange perception of this is revealed by "the look in [their eyes]"93 as he ... speaks. "The Night the Ghost Got In," by James Thurber, is a humorous look at a strange ... ...

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