Jim Casy was the moral voice and religious center of the chapter. Steinbeck uses him as a religious icon and his initials J.C further conclude to the fact that Steinbeck designed him as a figure of Christ. Casy discovers the rules and regulations of the Christian faith severely confining and clearly extraneous to actual situations. As a preacher and a history of many sexual relations with women he converts. Casy originally felt immense guilt for what he had done in his past and he worried the responsibilities he direct to Jesus. These action show the hypocrisy there was in that time and the ugly part of their society. Casy knew it was wrong, although he continued to do it. Later he concludes to Joad, while under the tree, that it 's just the