Reuben's Dream In 'The Grapes Of Wrath'

Dreams can be positive or negative. It is something that has your imaginaries in it, it shows your mental activity and won’t happen in reality. However, in this book, Jeremiah’s son Reuben, his dreams are like a symbolic of reality that not only happen in his mental image also happen in reality. Reuben always act as a witness role of his father’s miracle, however, sometimes he also can predict of some bad things that will happen in the future.
To begin with his first dream, it was like a bad symbolic for reality. Reuben had a nightmare. On page 16 it said, “Waking past midnight I departed this dream：I was crossing a shallow river that smelled of dying plants, my bare feet sinking in muck, the far shore concealed by for. Not a sound but the

“I dreamed a devilish little man came and stole my breath. He stepped through the door with a skin bag strung limp over his shoulder and with dispassionate efficiency crouched back and slugged me in the stomach. Such an incredulous exhale! And so complete; not a wisp of air remained.” That man in Reuben’s dream was a pale one and looks horror. After a year Reuben could still describe the dream to Swede. This shows that the man in his dream has a big influence on him. The skin bag made Reuben think about his dream. After that Reuben saw Davy, he goes to find him and know who he lives with and where he lives. The man who is Jape Waltzer that lives with Reuben is like that devilish man in Reuben’s dream. There is a little girl who is Sara that lives with Jape. When Sara did dinner for Reuben, Reuben thank for God, Jape said Reuben has to thank himself but not Sara. Jape is a man without faith. When that girl hurt Jape’s pig, she said sorry to Jape first, but Jape said she has to say sorry to that pig. That made Reuben really confused and don’t know why Jape treats things that way. When Reuben leaves Jape’s house, Jape said he will tell Reuben how to breath when nest time he comes. That is really fearful. “Now he’d lean down and look in my eyes—my lashes felt his breath.”, “‘Reuben,’ he whispered. ‘Look at me.’” The Jape’s action is totally like what that devilish man did to Reuben in his dream. Jape doesn’t want to help Reuben’s breath for real instead of making fun of him so that Jape made Reuben pass out. “But in his eyes I saw the same dead country through which I’d just come.” The look in Jape’s eyes is the same as the look in devilish man’s eyes. When Davy finally escaped from Jape’s place, he stay with his family for a while, then he gives Sara to Roxanna and let her take care of Sara. Jape was waiting outside for Davy, he use the gun shot at the Lands family.