American Literature Comparisons

Question 1

Familial relationships

Answer 1

Steinbecks ‘the grapes of wrath’
Character of Ma Joad - keeping family together (crossing of Californian desert, suffers silently knowing of the death of Granma)

Question 2

Degenerative American dream

Answer 2

The grapes of wrath - Steinbeck

Joads, a working-class family, are promised a better life through the “American Dream” and are driven by a desire for success and a better life

forced off their land and being met with poor working conditions and injustice

Question 3

desire for recognition, neglecting their relationship

Answer 3

Fitzgerald The Cut Glass Bowl

titular bowl represents the destructive aspirations of the Piper family, neglecting their relationship with eachother and with their children.

Question 4

Free indirect discourse

Answer 4

The house of mirth - Wharton
Lily Bart - generates individuality, asserting own story against societies views

Question 5

Isolation

Answer 5

Abandonment/ isolation - after death of her fiancé Catherine fears abandonment by Henry - he makes every attempt to reunite with her when separated but she is the one to leave him upon her death
A farewell to arms

Question 6

Freedom

Answer 6

Mississippi River huckleberry finn