A striking quote

Casy said, “He was foolin’, all the time. I think he knowed it. An’ Grandpa did not die tonight. He died the minute you took im’ off the place.” Obviously, this quote is a metaphor, he did not literally die the second the second they left the house but that’s what makes this quote so unique. Grandpa didn’t want to go on this trip in the first place but he was forced tp because the family drugged him and brought him with. For the quote Casy is actually saying that he died along with the house that they left. His heart was with the house, so when the house died, grampa metaphorically died too. Another quote that was earlier in the paragraph, also from Casy: “Grandpa an’ the old place, they jus’ the same damn thing.” (pg. 199) As I mentioned prior, Grandpa is compared to the old house mainly because he lived their is whole life and when asked to leave he did not want to give it up. He gave his heart and soul to that place and the second they took him his heart died because he was no longer happy. They should have just let him be and not forced him to come with if he didn’t want to.