"We’re proud to help. I ain’t felt so – safe in a long time. People needs – to help."
– John Steinbeck
The Grapes of Wrath, Chapter 13. We see the power of the community at work in Sairy Wilson’s words, as migrant families help one another in death. Here Grampa Joad has just died. Sairy and Ivy Wilson have provided a mattress in their tent for the dying Grampa, and when he dies they help with the funeral by allowing their quilt to be used as a shroud. Ma Joad promises to replace this for them. Sairy Wilson shows her humanity in a novel that has its fair share of inhumanity.