Help! LOL.. it's driving me crazy. I was talking to a friend that was talking about planting some Rose of Sharon, a shrub, in her garden. Her mention of it triggered a memory of a character named that in a novel I read long ago. I keep prodding my Fitzgerald, Hemingway, Faulkner, Steinbeck brain cells... but no hits so far.
A character in literature... "Rose of Sharon"? Which novel?
Rose of Sharon Joad is the name of a major supporting character in the 1939 novel, The Grapes of Wrath. Selfish and immature (and pregnant) at the beginning of the novel, she matures in the face of the unrelenting hardships experienced by her family.
Reply:Steinbeck's Grapes of Wrath
Reply:I don't think the Rose of Sharon mentioned in the Bible was a person and therefore not a character. I think it was in fact a rose. But it is important to remember this is where the name originally came from.
The only literary character I can think of is from The Grapes of Wrath.
Reply:The original Rose of Sharon is from the bible, the Song of Solomen.
Reply:The Grapes Of Wrath, by John Steinbeck
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