Ma Joad greets Tom

Illustration of Ma Joad as she greets Tom as he arrives home, from The Grapes of Wrath, vol.1 p.91, 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. "And her joy was nearly like sorrow." "She closed her eyes. 'Thank God,' she said, 'Oh Thank God!' And suddenly her face was worried. 'Tommy, you ain't wanted? You didn't bust loose?' 'No, Ma. Parole. I got the papers here."'