Goodreads asked Rusty Williams:

Who is your favorite fictional couple, and why?

Rusty Williams From John Steinbeck's The Grapes of Wrath, I've always been struck by the relationship between Tom Joad and his mother. Throughout that big sprawl of a story of the Okies traveling West and settling in California, Steinbeck keeps coming back to Tom and his mother. When Tom first returns home from prison he's like an eleven-year-old boy: shortsighted, angry, and crude. In virtually every scene the mother and son share, she's helping change him into a man who can look beyond his own needs. She does what a mother does: nurture, guide and civilize her offspring.

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