... according to their own set of values" (Van Kirk 28). A deserted wife, with no one to love, who probably thought she was in good hands when she became involved with a preacher, is the victim of society's harsh feelings and treatments and is perhaps the only decent Puritan in the town because she gives everyone a chance and looks down on no one ... ...

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... ," 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 ... ...

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