Family Breakdown Analysis

The family members themselves perform one of the factors that shared in the breakdown of their family by making self-interest before the need of the family. When this happens, family members alienated from each other and communication breaks down. The structure of the family is vanishing because everyone follows his desire and tries to achieve his aim on the cost of family scattering. Al is the member whose chief interests seem to be girls and cars. He feels that he stays with his family against his wish and that his family experiences restrictions to his personal freedom. On several occasions, he states his wish to go away and leave the family to work in a garage. Furthermore, he states “[f]ella can make his way lot easier if he ain’t got
, later on he realized the importance of a family and that he cannot handle the situation by himself so he continued with the family.at the end while the family is tottering and still in struggle with life, He announces his decision when he meets Agnes Wainwright, to leave the family and stay back with the girl he proposes to marry. Uncle John is morose man prone to depression and alcoholism. When his wife was pregnant she had stomach pains and asked for a doctor, however he told her that the pain was a result of indigestion. He suffers from a guilt complex of having sinned and caused the death of his wife so he became uninterested; he relieves himself through drinking and sex. Noah Joad suffers from mental disabilities and extravagant self-interest, He leaves the family at the Colorado River near the California
Ma’s eyes lighted up and she drew her attention toward Rose of Sharon. Her eyes went over the tight, tired, plump face, and she smiled. “Ma,’’ the girl said, “when we get there, all you gonna pick fruit an’ kinda live in the country, ain’t you?’’ Ma smiled a little satirically. “We ain’t there yet,’’ she said. “We don’t know what it’s like. We got to see.’’ “Me an’ Connie don’t want to live in the country no more,’’ the girl said. “We got it all planned up what we gonna do.’’ For a moment a little worry came on Ma’s face. “Ain’t you gonna stay with us—with the family?’’ she asked. “Well, we talked all about it, me an’ Connie. Ma, we wanna live in a town.’’ She went on excitedly, “Connie gonna get a job in a store or maybe a fact’ry. An’ he’s gonna study at home, maybe radio, so he can git to be a expert an’ maybe later have his own store. An’ we’ll go to pitchers whenever. An’ Connie says I’m gonna have a doctor when the baby’s born; an’ he says we’ll see how times is, an’ maybe I’ll go to a hospiddle. An’ we’ll have a car, little car. An’ after he studies at night, why—it’ll be