Grapes of Wrath: comparison between book and movie.
...nbeck’s views of the ‘monster’, the banks, the rich and general government insensitivity to the farmers’ situations. Ford tried to include some interchapters into the film through use of different shots shown, to add to the description of the dust bowl without the use of a narrator. Also, other episodes that occurred in the novel with anonymous characters are incorporated into the film, but acted out by members of the Joad family. One example is in the novel, an anonymous migrant asks for a loaf of bread in the grocery store, where in the film, it is Pa Joad that asks for the bread. A few other elements of the interchapters not even hinted at in the film are dishonest practices of used-car salesmen and unfair pricing of fruits on the fruit ranch. These were clearly omitted in order to focus on the Joad family and not get into too much political detail. Also, in the novel, Steinbeck hints at pointing blame at the farmers themselves and the government for the state of the dust bowl. The farmers misused the land, cultivating so much cotton and the government’s system of crop exploitation did not help to better the situation. Preacher Jim Casy’s situation and how he became included into the Joad family is especially different from novel to film. In the novel, there is much discussion between the Joad family if Casy should join them or not. The family knows that they already have too many people going and food is an issue too. Ma Joad replies when asked by Casy of his joining, “Why we'd be proud to have you.” But then she says that it is also not her decision, that she must check with the rest of the family. Grampa Joad wants Casy to join them, where Pa wonders about space and food, but ultimately Ma has the final say when she says “It ain't kin we? It's will we? ... I never heerd tell of no Joads or no Hazletts, neither, ever refusin' food an' shelter or a lift on the road to anybody that asked…there ain't room now. There ain't room for more'n six, an' twelve is goin' sure. One more ain't gonna hurt.” However, in the film, Casy does not even have to ask, he is invited by Pa; the one who is most opposed to it in the novel. There is another major difference between the novel and film in the order in which the Joads travel to the government camp and the peach camp. In the novel, they are forced to leave the comfortable government camp where they are treated with respect for the first time of their migration only to transfer to the Hooper ranch where Casy gets murdered and Tom kills Casy’s murderer. So things for them worsen as they go on, as opposed to how it is shown in the film. In the film, they ar...