Ma Joad sees Tom for the last time

Ma Joad sees Tom for the last time from The Grapes of Wrath,v.2,p.504, illustrated edition, by Thomas Hart Benton, a native of eastern Oklahoma, who was assigned to draw archetypal Oklahomans for 20th Century Fox as the studio believed that would make the casting more accurate. "Ma saw a dark figure creep into the open." "Lookie, Ma. I been all day an all night hiding' alone. Guess who I been thinking about? Casy! He talked alot. Used ta bother me. But now I been thinkin' what he said, an I can remember-all of it." "Then it don' matter. Then I'll be all around in the dark. I'll be everywhere-wherever you look. Wherever they's a fight so hungry people can eat, I'll be there..."