Jim Casy was similar to Jesus Christ but his personality traits did not end there.

             Jim Casy's personality is one of the most non-judgemental in the world. He believes that every one is created equal no matter what their physical differences, political class, or position in the world might be. He shows this by never uttering a hurtful word at anyone, sacrificing his own welfare to picket and raise the wages of other workers, and not faltering when he or his group mates were called derogatory names. Jim Casy was forever grateful to the Joads for letting him travel with them and talked of going off by himself to pay them back several times. He once said, "I wanna do what's bes' for you folks. You took me in, carried me along. I'll do whatever." Casy never asked for money while he was preaching because he knew the position his listeners were in, even though he was also desperate for money. Casy said in chapter four, "I brang Jesus to your folks for a long time, an' I never took up a collection nor nothin' but a bite to eat." Since Casy believes that we all have a small part of a larger soul, and everybody is holy, we are therefore equal. As Tom said, "one time he went out in the wilderness to find his soul, an' he foun' he jus' got a little piece of a great big soul." Once and for all stating equality, and universal holiness. .

             Casy is also a harmonious man. He believes in unity and that because people are all part of something greater than themselves, we should help one another out, and work together because otherwise we are all lost. "Why do we got to hang it all on God or Jesus? Maybe,' I figgered, 'maybe it's all men an' all women we love: maybe that's the Holy Sperit- the human sperit- the whole shebang. Maybe all men got one big soul ever'body's a part of." He thinks that people working in cooperation is holy: "When they're all workin' together, not one fella for another fell, but one fella kind of harnessed to the whole shebang -- that's right, that's holy"(pg 71).