Connie is nineteen years old and married to Rose of Sharon. He appears to be an alright person at first. He has already gotten Rose of Sharon pregnant, and he goes to California with the Joads. He is going to study radios, and help the whole family out. They all expect Connie to eventually be able to afford ice for the whole family. Soon after they arrive in California Connie shows a small amount of moral fiber. He sees that things are not looking good for the family, and he leaves them. It was a little unexpected. Connie left his pregnant wife without telling anyone, and never returned. Connie is clearly not a Joad. Any member of the Joad family would have stuck it out when things were bad. Al meets Aggie Wainwright and falls in love with her. He plans to marry her, and stick it out with her. Connie was too selfish to stay with the family. The only person who was shocked by Connie leaving was Rose of Sharon. She is still young and naïve. She believed that they were truly in love, and they would always be together. She wanted to live the perfect life in California. Connie would get a great job, and their baby would be born in a nice place. They would get to raise their child the way it should have been raised. But in the end the baby is never alive. This is really a good thing for a couple of reasons. This baby would have no father, and it would have been born in a bad area of California at a bad time. This was also good because Rose of Sharon had another purpose. She needed to help the old starving man that they run into in the end of the story. If Rose of Sharon had the baby she probably would not have helped this man that was dying. For a few reasons it was good that Connie left.
Steinbeck, John. The Grapes of Wrath. New York: Penguin, 2006. Print.
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