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Grapes of Wrath--The scene when Ma Joad (Jane Darwell) goes back into her bedroom before they leave the farm in Oklahoma. She opens the old dresser drawer, takes out a pair of fancy earrings, and holds them up on either side of her face just one more time.
The look in her old eyes and the image of her careworn face in that cracked, dusty mirror says it all. For just a second is was a young, hopeful girl again. She puts them back in the drawer, shuts it, and then leaves the house forever in the midst of the dust and despair of the wind.
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