The Grapes Of Wrath: Summary

Alfred Archibald Jones, a troubled English-born man, coping with his recent divorce with his ex-wife Ofelia, begins the story with him trying to commit suicide in his car. Noticing that Archie is parked in an illegal parking spot, Mo Hussein-Ishmael demands him to move. Like most of the things Archie does in life, he failed in doing what he plan, which was taking his own life. With given a second chance at life, the story takes off from here. Archie meets a Jamaican woman named Clara at an end of the world party and ends up marrying her within weeks of knowing her. They move a few miles away from their current homes and eventually have a daughter named Irie. One of the main things that bother his new wife Clara, is that her dreams are now crushed for the reason that she married a boring, average paid man. Her dream was to move as far away from her parents and marry a rich man that can do so, but Archie works for a paper folding company and does not fulfill any of his wife’s dreams. With Archie disappointing his family, overall, he is pretty much an easygoing man. He does not really take too many risks or puts himself in situations that could hurt him, except for the beginning of the book. When life calls for him …show more content…
He had a hard time figuring out who he was, wishing that he was a hero and a more interesting man. Now, he can call himself the hero he always wanted to be. He saved Doctor Marc-Pierre Perret and FutureMouse. Without flipping his coin, Archie decided by himself, what the right thing to do was, and that was to save Doctor Perret. Archie saw this growth in himself when he steps in front of the gun. He knew that things have changed and knew he is a better man for the sake of that. While Archie was lying on the ground, bleeding, he watched the little mouse out of its cage. It was free. Free like he is now. Having a second chance in life like Archie had in the beginning of the