#tom joad

[thebarroomortheboy]

John Steinbeck was particularly enamored with the performance of Henry Fonda as Tom Joad, feeling that he perfectly encapsulated everything he wanted to convey with this character. The two became good friends. Indeed Fonda did a reading at Steinbeck's funeral.

HENRY FONDA in THE GRAPES OF WRATH (1940) | dir. John Ford

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[whichgreathousewouldtheybepartof]

Since today is Labor Day:

If Tom Joad (The Grapes of Wrath) was in Game of Thrones/A Song of Ice and Fire, which Great House of Westeros would they be part of or at least the most affiliated with?

House Targaryen

House Stark

House Lannister

House Baratheon

House Greyjoy

House Tully

House Arryn

House Martell

House Tyrell

Voting ended onSep 9, 2025

Ways to approach the poll if the character isn’t a royal:

If you think they’d be from a smaller house, go with the Great House that that smaller house is sworn to (ex: House Manderly —> vote Stark)

They don’t have to be a nobleperson, they can be someone working for the house or being ruled by them. Roles could be a sworn-sword, a septa, a butcher, a blacksmith, or even a lowly peasant.

You can consider the region itself. For example, if you feel the character would be from Dorne, pick House Martell.

You can consider the personality of the character. For example, if your character is all about honor, then consider either House Arryn or House Stark.

Last, but not least, be creative with it! For example, there was a comment I read that the character who was the subject of the poll would be pulling a Littlefinger, so they went with either Lannister or Tyrell as that would be that character’s target houses.

[tmcfin]

Pt. II - Ghost of Tom Joad

Our times: *'Ghost of Tom Joad'*

People chained to their loans,

living owed,

every coin already borrowed.

Survival brings forth

poverty to the bone,

alert down deep to the core.

That is poor.

When your being screams, here comes the next one,

when your day one checked out-gone,

yet we carry on-

Visa, mastercard euribor

When harvests are interests on a loan,

Peace hangs on a digital symbol

"Graph goes up, yet life goes down"

Until all that’s left is: *'The ghost of Tom Joad.'*

Claiming back what was borrowed,

A human right,

A voice that knows.

This is ours.

[theirony-of-choking-on-this-dick]

i’m reading grapes of wrath, and here’s who i would cast based off how i’m picturing the characters

boston rob as tom joad

zahn mcclarnon as pa

rami malek as noah

willie nelson as jim casy

old man mcgucket as granpa

[opinionsaremagic]

when i read the grapes of wrath during my junior year i imagined the joads singing Apples to the Core (specifically tom joad as applejack, ruthie + winfield as apple bloom, ma joad as granny smith) and jim casy singing pinkie pie's part, and it made my reading experience more fun even when there were the grim deaths

[fromkenari]

I'm over talking about Brandon Sklenar being Batman. Let's talk about Brandon Sklenar being the next Tom Joad. No one has been one since Henry Fonda. Henry Fonda was 35 when he was Tom Joad. Brandon is 35. Ramin Bahrani (the guy behind 99 Homes, who was Oscar-nominated for best adapted screenplay for The White Tiger) and Brandon started following each other on Instagram. Ramin Bahrani is working on the script for a Grapes of Wrath TV Series, which he is going to direct and produce, too. It was a delulu hope because that's an award season type of role. But Ramin Bahrani shared Brandon's new Flaunt shoot in his Instagram stories yesterday. Cue me getting way more delulu about this now. I'm all for it. He would eat it up. Let's do it. I know nothing is official until it's actually announced as a project, but Brandon just bitched in the Flaunt interview about his type-cast "hyper-masculine Hemmingway-ass characters" resume. Let the man eat, please.

[tannertbosas]

Tom Joad & Connie Rivers

First two from my series of Grapes Of Wrath designs