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Dakota Staples
Despite her religious nature, Granma doesn't hold back when it comes to saying what's on her mind. When the family is getting ready for their migration to California, Granma makes it clear that Grampa (her husband) will not be driving the car.
Once Grampa finally sees his grandson, he talks about how the father of the man that Tommy murdered threatened to shoot Tommy. Grampa tells everyone to not worry: he's got Tommy's back. He told the man ''You lay your sights anywheres near Tommy an' I'll take it an' I'll ram it up your ass.'' Classy Grampa, real classy. This quote reinforces the image of Grampa's aggressiveness, but frames it as a defense of his family, so it seems more acceptable.
Pa Joad is a good, thoughtful man, and he plans the family’s trip to California with great care and consideration. The hardships faced by the Joads prove too great for him, however, and although he works hard to maintain his role as head of the family, he complains of muddled thoughts and finds himself in frequent quandaries.
Uncle John is Pa Joad's lonely older brother. He's a bit of a recluse, but he's got a big heart nonetheless. John used to be married once upon a time, but one day his wife complained of a pain in her gut. John told her she simply had a stomachache. A day later, she died of appendicitis. Every since then, he's felt incredibly guilty and lonely.
A determined and loving woman, Ma Joad emerges as the family’s center of strength over the course of the novel as Pa Joad gradually becomes less effective as a leader and provider.
Tom begins the novel in possession of a practical sort of self-interest. Four years in prison, he claims, have molded him into someone who devotes his time and energies to the present moment.
Noah Joad is Ma and Pa Joad's oldest son. He "left the impression of being misshapen, his head, body, legs, or mind. Pa Joad was terrified when his wife went into labor with their first child. They were alone in their house, and so Pa had to deliver the baby.
And mow Al, Moving humbly near, was his brother was not a swagger as he supposed. Al saw the dark brooding eyes of his brother, and the prison calm, the smooth hard face trained to indicate nothing to a prison guard, neither resistance nor slavishness. And instantly Al changed. Unconsciously he became like his brother, and his handsome face brooded, and his shoulders relaxed.(115)
Ruthie, dressed in a real dressof pink muslin that came belowher knees,was a little serious in her young-ladyness. (129)
But Winfield was still a trifel of a snot-nose, a little of a brooder back of the barn, and an inveterate collector and smoker of snipes.(129)
Her hair, braided and wrapped around her head, made an ash-blond crown. Her round soft face, which had been voluptous and inviting a few months ago, had alredy put on a barrier of pregnancy. (129)
Connie , her nineteen-year-old husband who had married a plump, passionate hoyden, was still frightend and bewildered at the changes in her.(130)