Character Analysis Of Dora In The Grapes Of Wrath By John Steinbeck

Dora is a woman with orange hair and the owner of Bear Flag Restaurant. Steinbeck states, “Dora is a great woman, a great big woman with flaming orange hair and a taste for Nile green evening dresses” (19). She has two daughters that are sheltered due to the mother not allowing them to drink or talk to other men. She is a very gentle and giving person. She has all the qualities of a respected woman. In the books it says, “though the exercise of special gifts of tact and honesty, charity, and a realism, made herself respected by the intelligent, the learned, and the kind” (19). I concluded this because she was willing to pay for families grocery bills and provide aid to the families that encountered the flu. Steinbeck’s portrays Dora’s relationship as steady and keeping the peace because she is never on any of the characters bad side and we never read anything going wrong for her. She is always putting others before herself. For example, when the whole town of Monterey had influenza epidemic she was the only person, which doc, to help out the families by staying with them at their house and provide food for them. Dora would go to her restaurant, have the cooks make soup for them and leave her restaurant to make sure they are fed. This

One thing that always keeps the plot moving is because she is always in danger of her restaurant being shut down by authorities. In chapter 3, Dora knows her business is illegal thus she keeps everything aboveboard and notes money to the community (20). As the reader you will always expect Dora being a generous person because she doesn’t want her business to shutdown. She also keeps the police off her back by donating $50.00 to their pension fund when the others in cannery row only donate $1.00-5.00. If something like this didn’t happen, I think, the book would never have something to look forward to and would seem like the book