Title: The women of The Grapes of Wrath Category:Literature / Novels Details: Words: 595 | Pages: 2.5 (approximately 235 words/page)
The women of The Grapes of Wrath
In, The Grapes of Wrath, Ma Joad and Rose of Sharon graphically portray Steinbeck's themes of strength and sacrifice. They are universal characters, the people who hold up the fabric of society. Through them we view the need for unity and desperation of all those who went west only to find life as bleak as when they left it.
Throughout the story Ma is a model of the strength of the human spirit. For example, Steinbeck says of her, "if she swayed the family shook, …showed first 85 words of 595 total…
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…showed last 85 words of 595 total…role as a woman. With her sacrifices Rose of Sharon depicts the ruined aspirations of the Okies and truly becomes a woman.
Steinbeck uses his characters to convey many of his themes. With Ma's strength and Rose of Sharon's sacrifices he shows that the most common people are the most important. Those who run the great corporate machine and make themselves rich by standing on the backs of others are nothing without those they exploit and are in fact less than those they consider subordinate.
