Transformations in Grapes Of Wrath by John Steinbeck future, to become a man who thinks about the future and someone with morals and an obligation to help others. Ma Joad is a typical woman from the early 1900s whose primary role was that of mother, with only a caring and nurturing role. Later in the novel, she becomes an important figure to the family and is responsible for making decisions to keep the family together and emphasizes the importance of unity. Another important transition in the book is that the family begins as a single, close-knit unit and depends on other families to survive. This common interest and struggle linked the community of individual families into one. Steinbeck wrote this novel very well, having great character dynamics and development that shows the characters' strengths as well as their

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