Once there, unable to find work and increasingly desperate, finds himself looking to Ma Joad for strength and leadership, though he sometimes feels ashamed of his weaker position. A plainspoken, good-hearted man, directs the effort to take the family to California. An Oklahoma tenant farmer who has been evicted from his farm. Elsie Graves Willy's wife Ol' Tom Joad (Pa Joad) Ma Joad's husband and Tom's father. John's biggest regret is not sending a doctor for her. Got a pain in her stomach and John refused to send for a doctor. Uncle John's wife Was married to Uncle John for 4 months. Helps with low offer that ends up with the customer trading mules. Lost respect for guys who work for the government Joe Man working at place that sells cars and car parts. Reads a lot about prisons, says messed him up and confused him and nobody should read about them. McAlester lifer Studies all the time and secretary of the warden. By the end of the novel, she matures considerably, and possesses, the reader learns with surprise, something of her mother's indomitable spirit and grace.

Her husband abandons her, and her child is born dead. The harsh realities of migrant life soon disabuse of these ideas, however.

She and Connie have grand notions of making a life for themselves in a city. An impractical, petulant, and romantic young woman, begins the journey to California pregnant with her first child. Rosasharn/ Rose of Sharon The oldest of Ma and Pa Joad's daughters, and Connie's wife. They were drunk at a dance one night and Herb came at Tom with a knife so he smacked him against his head. Ol' man Turnbull (Herb) Man that Tom Joad killed. Shawnee Land and Cattle Company Company that many people are mad at for ruining their farming.

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