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.He dreams of learning aexpresses little remorse for his crime, and only the trade and living in a town, and finally abandons hisdesire to satisfy his own immediate needs.He joins wife and disappears.the family in the trek westward, superficially under-standing a responsibility to his kin.Eventually, as Rose of Sharon (Rosasharn) The oldest daugh-Tom bears witness to the unrelenting suffering of ter of Ma and Pa Joad and wife of Connie Rivers inmigrant workers and the injustices levied against The Grapes of Wrath.She is also called  Rosasharn.them, he chooses to fight for the downtrodden, She has a soft and round face.In the novel sheknowing he may lose his life in the struggle.changes from an immature and self-absorbed youngwoman who is only concerned with outward appear-Joad, Uncle John Pa Joad s brother in The ance and romance to a strong and giving adult.AsGrapes of Wrath.Depicted as  the loneliest god- food and shelter become an urgent issue for the Joaddamn man in the world, he blames himself for the family, she complains and worries because she isuntimely death of his wife, and worries that his sins pregnant.She is a  Jesus lover at the Weedpatchhave brought all the troubles down on his family.government camp, where it is predicted that herThe Grapes of Wrath 109child will be born dead and damned.Abandoned by Musical Score: Alfred Newmanher young husband, she gives birth to a dead baby, Photography: Gregg Tolandending many of her unrealistic dreams for the future.Tom Joad: HENRY FONDAThe novel ends with her offering her breast milk to aMa Joad: Jane Darwellstarving man, which demonstrates her newfoundCasy: John Carradinewillingness to share her bounty with humanity.Grampa Joad: Charley GrapewinRose of Sharon: Dorris BowdonThomas, Mr.A character in The Grapes ofPa Joad: Russell SimpsonWrath, Mr.Thomas is the owner of a small ranch.Al Joad: O.Z.WhiteheadHe warns Tom Joad that the valley Growers Associ-Muley: John Qualenation is planning on starting a riot at the Weed-Noah Joad: Frank Sullypatch Camp.Uncle John Joad: Frank DarienWinfield Joad: Darryl HickmanWainright family Characters in The Grapes ofRuth Joad: Shirley MillsWrath, the Wainright family is a large one thatshares a boxcar with the Joad family at the cottonOne of the best adaptations of a Steinbeck novel tocamps.Al Joad decides to marry Aggie, the prettyfilm, The Grapes of Wrath preserved Steinbeck s16-year-old daughter of Mr.and Mrs.Wainright.classic novel in both spirit and letter, making onlysmall concessions for the sake of cinematic neces-Weedpatch Camp A place in The Grapes ofsity.Some critics have claimed that the film soft-Wrath, Weedpatch is a government aid camp set upened the novel s criticisms of those Steinbeckfor migratory workers and their families and admin-judged to be the guilty parties in the oppression ofistrated by Jim Rawley, a lean, generous man with amigrant workers.Another criticism is that thethin, brown, lined face and merry eyes.When thefilm s slight reordering of events gives it a lighterJoad family is burned out of Hooverville by angryending than the grim hopelessness offered by thevigilantes, they seek asylum in Weedpatch Camp.novel.For the most part, however, the film was dar-The Weedpatch residents organize Saturday nightingly loyal to the book.Indeed, the film portrayeddances that become famous, attracting people fromin such stark realism the horrible conditions of themiles around.The Growers Association plots tomigrant laborers that Life magazine published anstart a riot at the camp so that they can send in thearticle showing scenes from the movie alongsidepolice and bust it up.actual photographs of the migratory camps in anWilsons, the The first couple the Joad family attempt to prove to skeptics that the povertyencounters on their trip westward in The Grapes of shown in the film was not exaggerated.The filmWrath.Traveling from Kansas to California, Ivy and also prompted Woody Guthrie to write his famoushis wife, Sairy Wilson, lend their tent for Grandpa ballad  Tom Joad.Joad to die in.Al Joad fixes their car and they agreeto travel in caravan with the Joads.Sairy Wilson isFURTHER READINGslowly dying from breast cancer and can travel noAstro, Richard.John Steinbeck and Edward F.Ricketts:farther than the Colorado River.The Shaping of a Novelist.Minneapolis: Universityof Minnesota Press, 1973.THE FILM: THE GRAPES OF WRATHBloom, Harold.John Steinbeck s The Grapes of Wrath.(TWENTIETH CENTURY FOX, 1940)New York: Chelsea House Publications, 1996.Based on the novel by John SteinbeckBradbury, Malcom.The Modern American Novel.NewScreenplay: NUNNALLY JOHNSON ed.Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1992, 138 142.Director: John Ford Cowley, Malcolm. American Tragedy. New Republic,Producer: DARRYL F.ZANUCK May 3, 1939, 382 383.110 The Green LadyDeMott, Robert, ed.Working Days: The Journals of Stevens, George. Steinbeck s Uncovered Wagon.The Grapes of Wrath, 1938 1941.New York: Saturday Review, April 15, 1939, 3 4.Viking Press, 1989.Timmerman, John. The Grapes of Wrath 50 YearsLater. Christian Century, April 5, 1989, 341 343.Ditsky, John, ed.Critical Essays on The Grapes ofWeiner, Gary.Readings on The Grapes of Wrath.SanWrath.Boston: G.K.Hall, 1989.  .John Steinbeck: Life, Work and Criticism.Fred- Diego, Calif.: Greenhaven Press, 1999.Wilson, Edmund. The Californians: Storm andericton, Canada: York Press, 1985.Steinbeck. New Republic, December 9, 1940,Fadiman, Clifton.Books.New Yorker, April 15, 1939,784 787.81 83 [ Pobierz całość w formacie PDF ]