A cat prowls an abandoned farm

Illustration of a cat as it prowls an abandoned farm from The Grapes of Wrath, vol.1, p142, 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. "When the folks first left, and the evening of the first day came, the hunting cats slouched in from the fields and mewed on the porch."