Grapes_Of_Wrath

Grapes Of Wrath In the novel, The Grapes of Wrath, John Steinbeck brings to the reader a variety of diverse and greatly significant characters. However, the majority of each characters’ individuality happens to lie within what they symbolize in the nature of the Joad family and their acquaintances, which itself stands for the entire migrant population of the Great Depression era. One such character is that of Jim Casey, a former preacher and long-time friend of the Joads. In Steinbeck’s, The Grapes of Wrath, Jim Casey represents a latter-day Christ figure who longs to bring religious stability to the burgeon of migrant families facing West. Steinbeck manages to casey, christ, jim, steinbeck, jesus, reader, out, order, migrant, figure, character, yet, wrath, without, wilderness, while, way, wages, throughout, strike, similar, represents, religious, rather, people, one, novel, lie, just, johnson, himi, great, grapes, grace, goes