"I figgered there just wasn’t no hope for me, an’ I was a damned ol’ hypocrite. But I didn’t mean to be."
– John Steinbeck
The Grapes of Wrath, Chapter 4. Jim Casy admits to occupying the morally gray area between holiness and sin when he was an evangelist and minister. He feels guilty of hypocrisy because of his seduction of girls following his rousing religious sermons. This chapter gives us an insight into the internal struggle he is going through concerning his faith verses his actions.