Essay Archive - The Grapes of Wrath: Description Al Joad and the Setting
The Grapes of Wrath: Description Al Joad and the Setting
Al Joad is a fairly skinny guy of medium built who starts out being a
cocky, self-conceited character. His only justifiable reason for acting cocky
is that his brother, Tom, killed a man and went to jail. Al respects his brother
and thinks of him as a man for having killed another man. The fact of the
matter is that Tom was only acting in self defense. After a man came after Tom
with a knife, Tom hit him over the head with a shovel, and killing him in the
proc....
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