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In Steinbeck’s novel, The Grapes of Wrath, the main character the Joads undergo the journey to California to search for work and the happiness that was stolen from them. At the end of the novel three family members have died, one friend, one pet, and three family members have left the family for their journey alone. The remaining Joads stumbled across a boy and his dying father. The oldest Joad daughter, whose baby has recently passed, nurses the boys dying father in a barn. “She looked up and the barn, and her lips came together and smiled mysteriously.” This leads to the belief that Roseofsharon knew that better times were soon to come, signifying that things were looking up for the Joads and others like them. When the Joads were forced to move from t