... have the illusion of being lifted"90 and carried by a large, strong, and swift man. He is "yellow like the sunlight, and there [is] a smell of ripe cornfields about him."91 During the Roaring Twenties, the Harlem Renaissance produced eerie poetry and 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 mes...

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