He sprinkled gasoline on Jason""s body, but his wet matches wouldn""t light.He then witnessed the brutal killing of his friend Allen when Jason punched his chest with his fist, and held his torn-out heart(# 1 death).Dawn approached as they broke up the meeting, when Joe again temptingly urged Marvin to consider becoming their selling agent in Memphis:You""re on the right side now, Marvin.Without any expression of emotion or grief, Geoff reacts with matter-of-fact orders to "get he wagon, take along a big pair of shears in case you have to cut him out.The married couple lovingly embraced in the doorway of their cabin, o face the wind together.[Note: The original script idea (based upon the novel) called for a tragic and downbeat ending - after suffering rape and committing homicide, the heroine Letty wandered blindly into the middle of the sandstorm and disappeared - to presumably die for her crime.] In the local iron foundry at the end of the night shift, fiery, bright flames, smoke and sparks emerge from the blast furnaces - the powerful, hellish fire a symbol of productiveness and destructiveness both in peace and in war-time.