Jim's Characterization

       From the beginning of In Dubious Battle, Jim is described as a hopeless and miserable person. His family is broken into pieces, his father is anger to the boss system and always tries to fight against the system alone, and finally his father is shot to death. His mother dies while he is in jail and she does not want to talk to him. His sister suddenly disappeared when he was a young boy. After Jim is released from the jail, he breaks down and he wants to do something that can make his life more meaningful. He decides to join the Party that he has learnt about while he was in jail. After being a member of Party, he is introduced to Mac who becomes his mentor and guides him to organize a group apple pickers on strike. During the strike, Jim learn more and more about how to work in a group; also he builds up himself confident that leading him to gain power of a leader.

       Jim is similiar to growers at the point of controlling people. As growers, there is no condition, they use their wealthy power to order pickers either to pick apples or to walk out their ranch. In the same manner, Jim  is suddenly transformed himself to a powerful leader; he uses his leader power to authorize strikers must follow his leadership.