Jim Casy, illustration

Illustration of Jim Casy from The Grapes of Wrath, vol.1 p. 25, 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. "Just Jim Casy now, Ain't got the call no more. Got a lot of sinful idears-- but the seem kinda sensible.' Joad said, You're bound to get idears if you go thinkin' about stuff."