Critics

Question 1

Motley

Answer 1

“Joad family shifts from a patriarchal structure to a predominantly matriarchal one”

Question 2

Congressman of Oklahoma

Answer 2

“exposes nothing but the total depravity, vulgarity, and degraded mentality of the author’’

(Context- book was banned by many, viewed as communist. Shows that people didn’t want to be made aware of the reality of the situation. Not wanting to see the reality of life.

Question 3

Yanhong Fan (on Jim Casy)

Answer 3

“his messages…considerably broaden man’s sense of spiritual community”

Question 4

Hughes

Answer 4

“Steinbeck countered the idealism of the frontier”

Link to Gatsby- Fitzgerald kind of mythologises the west- frontier positivity.

Question 5

Kazin

Answer 5

(Characters are) “essentially symbolic marionettes”

a puppet controlled from above using wires or strings

Question 6

Spangler

Answer 6

“Steinbeck has smashed the notions of the American dream”

Question 7

Kronenberger

Answer 7

“Document of protest and compassion.”

Question 8

Blades

Answer 8

“The novel picks apart the willful optimism of the pioneer and questions the limits of individualism”