Jim Casy, Connie Rivers, Muley Graves, and Noah Joad are literary characters in which of these novels?

The novel "The Grapes of Wrath", an American realist novel, was written by John Steinbeck and published in 1939. The book won the National Book Award and Pulitzer Prize for fiction, and it was cited prominently when Steinbeck was awarded the Nobel Prize in 1962.

Set during the Great Depression, the novel focuses on the Joads (Father, Mother, Noah, Tom, Al, Winfield, Rose of Sharon, Ruthie, Grampa, Granma, and Uncle John. They are a poor family of tenant farmers driven from their Oklahoma home by drought, economic hardship, agricultural industry changes, and bank foreclosures forcing tenant farmers out of work. Due to their nearly hopeless situation, and in part because they are trapped in the Dust Bowl, the Joads set out for California along with thousands of other "Okies" seeking jobs, land, dignity, and a future.

Others who have dealings or contact with the Joads include: Jim Casy: a former preacher who lost his faith and later is murdered by a camp guard. He is seen as a Christ-like figure; Connie Rivers: Rose of Sharon's husband (nineteen years old and naïve), he is overwhelmed by marriage and impending fatherhood. He abandons his wife and the Joad family shortly after they arrive in California; and Muley Graves: a neighbor of the Joads. He is invited to come along to California with them, but refuses.

"The Grapes of Wrath" (a celebrated Hollywood film version), starring Henry Fonda and directed by John Ford, was released in 1940.