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Monday, April 16, 2007
No Law in Oklahoma
When Muley came into the story and the three men stayed at the old Joad house the police came to the house to check out the fire and see if anybody was at the house. Muley talked about shooting the cop, Willy, and said that he had done it before. During the Dustbowl era in the United States did this type of lawlessness actually occur or was Steinbeck just trying to add something to the story? The way Steinbeck described it sounded like the Old West instead of the United States in the mid 1930s.
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First of all... Muley had never shot Willie, he just shot at him and also hit him over the head with a stake post. And I believe there was this kind of lawlessness in these times. People were fight for their lives. The banks and corporations were pulling the rug out from underneath them, making them wonder where their next meal would come from. These were desperate times, and desperate times call for desperate measures.
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