The Grapes of Wrath (Cyclopedia of Literary Characters)
At a glance:
- Author: John Steinbeck
- First Published: 1939
- Type of Work: Novel
- Type of Plot: Social realism
- Time of Work: The 1930’s
- Setting: The Midwestern United States and California
- Genres: Long fiction, Social realism
- Subjects: North America or North Americans, Suffering, United States or Americans, Social issues, Depression, economic, 1930’s, Despair, Hope, Poverty or poor people, California, West, U.S., Farms, farmers, or farming, Death or dying, Migrant labor
- Locales: California, Midwest (U.S.), Oklahoma
Characters Discussed
Tom Joad, Jr., an ex-convict. Returning to his home in Oklahoma after serving time in the penitentiary for killing a man in self-defense, he finds the house deserted, the family having been pushed off the land because of dust bowl conditions and in order to make way for more productive mechanization. With Casy, the preacher, he finds his family and makes the trek to California in search of work. Tom kills another man when his friend Casy, who is trying to help migrant workers in their labor problems, is brutally killed by deputies representing the law and...
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