Grapes of Wrath- Pa Joad

Pa Joad was one of the main characters in The Grapes of Wrath. We did not seem to hear a lot about Pa, because he was kind of quiet compared to everyone else. Pa's farmland got destroyed from a period of no rain, which cause dust, and a lot of wind. He did not know how he was going to take care of his family without his farmland. The family was forced to move away from their home, after the big "Dust Bowl" went through .When they moved from their home in Oklahoma, it really changed Pa.He had lived their his whole life, and was beginning to raise a family there. He did not want to live anywhere else but there. Pa always seemed like he was out of it. He would always be thinking, and never really would have much to say, because he was hard on himself about providing for his family. Pa was always the leader of the family, until they lost their land, and he seemed to change in many ways. Pa seemed to let Ma be more of the leader of the family. Ma was very good at it, but Pa should have stepped up a little more. Pa was just so ashamed of himself, and he was to hard on himself. He did not need to be that way though, because it was not his fault that a depression like this was happening. Pa was really not like that deep down. He was a strong and courageous man, that knew how to take charge if he needed to, especially for his family. If you were in his place, during that time, I think you could really see what made him act like he did. Farms were all that men had then, and thats what they relied on to provide profit for the family, without them they did not have much. Pa was a really good man, that just really took the depression hard.