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 proce....
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