Heart

Heart: What are the things that are most important to the character? What does he hold closest to his heart?

The big dumb one came into my room today. I swear I have never seen one so thick and dense as that man. He is more of a child than a man, and I couldn' help but tease him.  I pride myself on my sense, my attention to the hard realities of this world. I am no fool. I know my lot. I know that life is misery.

He thinks he is going to buy a ranch with that man whom he follows like a puppy. "I seen hunderds of men come by on the road an’ on the ranches, with their bindles on their back an’ that same damn thing in their heads. Hunderds of them. They come, an’ they quit an’ go on; an’ every damn one of ‘em’s got a little piece of land in his head. An’ never a God damn one of ‘em ever gets it. Just like heaven. Ever’body wants a little piece of lan’. I read plenty of books out here. Nobody never gets to heaven, and nobody gets no land. It’s just in their head. They’re all the time talkin’ about it, but it’s jus’ in their head." There is nothing in this one's head, but this dream. He believes it so truly and so vividly. I wonder if there is something to his simple minded dreamin'.