Which character is described as organizing workers after leaving prison?

• A. Connie
• B. Casy
• C. Tom
• D. Pa

Answer: (B)

The question hinges on who moves from personal role into collective action and leads others to unite for worker rights. Jim Casy, a former preacher, shifts from religious work to organizing migrant laborers. He travels with the Joads and becomes a vocal advocate for solidarity, encouraging workers to band together across family lines to demand fair wages and better conditions. This organizing impulse—turning individual labor into a coordinated effort—is what defines his arc after leaving his previous life. Tom Joad is touched by that influence and joins in the organizing effort, but the explicit organizer among the characters is Casy, whose philosophy and actions push the workers to unite. Connie and Pa don’t embody this organizing role in the same way. Casy embodies the act of organizing workers after leaving his former path.