Literature-themed endings to story line?

Ooooh, that very very creative!

I’m not all that well read but I’ve read “The Grapes of Wrath” and I don’t find the bit where Rose of Sharon nurses the starving man disgusting in its context. My imagination won’t stretch to a storyline where Rob Tichener is dying in a barn. I can’t quite see any circumstances in which he’d be dying of hunger in Ambridge. And it’s stretching my credibility even further to think of Emma Grundy as having much compassion for anyone outside her immediate family …