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Joad demanded, “What’s come over you, Muley? You were never no run-an’-hide fella. You was mean.”
Muley watched the approaching lights. “Yeah!” he said, “I was mean like a wolf. Now I’m mean like a weasel. When you’re huntin’ sompin you’re a hunter, an’ you’re strong. Can’t nobody beat a hunter. But when you get hunted- that’s different. Sompin happens to you. You ain’t strong. I been hunted now for a long time. I ain’t a hunter no more. I’d made be shoot a fella in the dark, but I don’t maul nobody with a fence stake no more. It don’ do no good to fool you or me. That’s how it is.”
— The dialoge in Grapes of Wrath has left me stunned and ashamed with how much I relate to it.
