Characters in "The Grapes of Wrath": Rose of Sharon

The next character in The Grapes of Wrath is Rose of Sharon, or Rosasharn, according to the accents of the rest of the family. Rose of Sharon tries to be a strong girl, but as she is pregnant, she is very hormonal and struggles to suppress her emotions. Rose of Sharon helps her family move out west and her husband Connie comes along. Connie and Rose of Sharon plan to have a nice house with Connie having a steady job so their baby will have a nice life. Soon though, the pressure becomes too much for Connie and he leaves the Joad family. Rose of Sharon has an incredibly hard time with this, because his leaving breaks her heart. Her family is the kind of family that does not show emotions, so they do not like the fact that she is so willing to cry and show how upset she is about her husband leaving her. They let it go, but only because she is pregnant so they do not expect much out of her. She complains a lot and whines about the fact that he has left. She constantly is asking for milk and bothering her mom about getting some because that is what a nurse told her that she needs. She does not like doing anything and just wants to be able to sit around being waited on. With her family in trouble, she works one day, which cause her to be sick and give birth to her baby early. The baby is stillborn, which causes Rose of Sharon even more emotional turmoil. She curls up in a corner and just lays there crying for an extremely long amount of time. She does help out in the end though, as the man in the barn needed milk and that was what she had to offer. In The Grapes of Wrath, Rose of Sharon is portrayed as an extremely emotional woman that wants everything to go her way and struggles when her life is not stable.