From the beginning, Jim Casy seemed to be a pointless character, an extra, someone with little purpose to the plot of the story. He isn’t mentioned very often and doesn’t have any distinguishable characteristics. However, Casy ends up being an incredibly important character in John Steinbeck’s novel, The Grapes of Wrath. Casy used to be a preacher for a church, in fact, it was the same church the main characters attended. However, everyone voted towards him being ostracized from the church for flirting with the girls. This was considered a sin to Christians and they all agreed to have him removed. This leads him to drift away from Christianity and begins developing his own religion. He gave up being a preacher, but instead became a speaker of his own thoughts on the world. Casy begins viewing humanity as strongest when we have unity. He believes that sin and virtue are just labels for actions we do and how a vast group of people portray them, that they have no actual effect on anyone’s outcome after or during life. This wouldn’t be considered a religion though, as religions are defined as believing in a superhuman or greater power. Casy was a …show more content…
Because of this, they decide that he is the best one to target, the main support holding up their building. Without him, they would all fall and they would witness the power they have and what they can do with it. Then, once they settle down again, they start hearing noises, people talking. In panic, they quickly decided to leave, however the men quickly catch up to them. The voices they heard were indeed men, and before they could leave, the men caught up and killed Jim Casy, killed the modern Jesus Christ, but didn’t kill his religion. After the flashlight points on Casy’s dead body, Tom snaps back into killing again, like he foreshadowed in the beginning. His death leaves all his disciples to spread his religion for