The Grapes of Wrath | Characters
The members of the Joad family occupy center stage in this story, and the reader's interest is directed to their growing realization of the hopelessness of their struggle. If any one character can be called central, it is Tom Joad, the second son whose return to the family home in Oklahoma after a four-year prison term opens the novel. The events of the novel lead him to a growing awareness of his responsibilities both to his family and to his fellow man. Ma Joad, too, grows during the course of the novel: She must learn to accept the disintegration of the family unit, something she...
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