Zachery Scott's character speaks for countrymen everywhere

When I first saw this haunting film back in the early days of TV on the Late Show on WPIX in NYC, I never realized that it was directed by Jean Renoir! For me, Zachery Scott's character speaks for countrymen everywhere and for all eras, when he tells a friend who has been trying to persuade him to come to town and work in a cotton mill, that he {Tucker} belongs out there in the fresh air, under god,s blue sky, working the soil. It brought me back to my youth on a farm in upsyate NY. Men like that were the guys who came out of the woods on July 3, 1863, and made that terrible hike toward Cemetery Ridge. It was love of a vanishing way of life that drove them.