Tormented Virtue A fallen preacher who too often succumbed to temptation became the a leader of righteousness. In John Steinbeck’s The Grapes of Wrath, Jim Casy left the ministry when he realized that he did not believe in the Christian ideas about sin, just as Jesus turned away from his religion and its arrogant ridge beliefs. Casy was a mixture of the goodness of Jesus Christ and the weakness of the common man. Jim …showed first 75 words of 510 total…

…showed last 75 words of 510 total…against each other in a battle between sin and virtue. Jim Casy was a tormented man at war with his soul, a common man that has sinned and has many faults, he still showed noble and fair qualities that made him benevolent. I believe that Jim Casy represented the good and bad of all men. But he had a certain something that made him what he was. He had an almighty godliness with a flair.