Character Analysis: Pa Joad's Job

Before he made the decision of enduring the long journey to California he worked as a simple farmer, he grew his crops and raised his pigs. He could feed all his family and live a good life. But when the Dust Ball reached Oklahoma the crops were dying and there weren't any more jobs. So Pa Joad and his family moved to California were all his family had to work because if only he worked there wouldn't be enough food to feed his family. The fact that he had to work twice as hard an earn much less in proportion with what he earned before depressed him in a really serious way, although he doesn't share it with his family and keeps it to himself.

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