Name's Joad, Tom Joad

Illustration of Tom Joad from The Grapes of Wrath vol1 p.11 illustrated edition, by Thomas Hart Benton, a native of eastern Oklahoma, who was assigned to draw archetypal Oklahomans for 20th Century Fox as the studio believed that would make the casting more accurate."Name's Joad, Tom Joad, Old man is ol' Tom Joad.' He rested his eyes broodingly on the driver. 'Don't get sore. I didn't mean nothin'. I don't mean nothin neither,' said Joad. 'I'm just trying to get along without shovin' nobody around."