Key Quotations - Jim Casy

Question 1

On virtue (Chp4)

Answer 1

‘There ain’t no sin and there ain’t no virtue. There’s just stuff that people do’

Question 2

Hard for families to leave suddenly (Chp6)

Answer 2

‘Fella gets use’ to a place, it’s hard to go.’

Question 3

Casy on sins (Chp18)

Answer 3

‘Sure I got sins. Everybody got sins.’

Question 4

Radical change taking place with makes America dead (Chp10)

Answer 4

‘This whole country is empty’

Question 5

Oncoming change (Chp16)

Answer 5

‘They’s gonna come a thing that’s gonna change the whole country

Question 6

Doesn’t feel spiritual anymore (Chp4)

Answer 6

‘I give’em a grace, but my heart ain’t in.’

Question 7

Confused when leading in a situation (Chp4)

Answer 7

‘I got the call to lead people, an’ no place to lead ‘em.’

Question 8

Casy on himself (Chp4)

Answer 8

‘I figgered there just wasn’t no hope for me, an’ I was a damned ol’ hypocrite. But I didn’t meant to be.’

Question 9

Casy on wealth

Answer 9

‘If he needs a million acres to make him feel rich, seems to me he needs it cause he feels awful poor inside hisself’

Question 10

Turtles

Answer 10

‘Nobody can keep a turtle tho…They get out and away they go off somewhere.’

Question 11

Last line, dying a martyr, likening him to the Jesus Christ figure

Answer 11

‘You don’ know what you’re a-doin’