grapes of wrath
...being young, pregnant, and eventually abandoned by her husband. She prefaces virtually everything with “But will it-hurt the baby” (193)? She assists the family in a minimal way and basically acts selfishly until the birth of her stillborn baby. On the road, when she learns that her brother Tom murdered a policeman, she states, “What chance that baby got to bore right” (537)? Rose does not even show concern for the victim but obsesses about bringing bad luck to her baby. She is characterized as impractical. She and Connie, her husband who leaves her, do not have realistic goals or objectives. “Well, we talked all about it, me an’ Connie. …we wanna live in a town. …an’he’s gonna send off for a course, ‘cause it don’t cost nothin’ to send off. …it is nice clean work…” (224). Rose is consistently immature and out of touch with reality. Finally, when the baby is born, stillborn, shortl...