Critics Reversed Flashcards
“Joad family shifts from a patriarchal structure to a predominantly matriarchal one”
Motley
“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.
Congressman of Oklahoma
“his messages…considerably broaden man’s sense of spiritual community”
Yanhong Fan (on Jim Casy)
“Steinbeck countered the idealism of the frontier”
Link to Gatsby- Fitzgerald kind of mythologises the west- frontier positivity.
Hughes
(Characters are) “essentially symbolic marionettes”
a puppet controlled from above using wires or strings
Kazin
“Steinbeck has smashed the notions of the American dream”
Spangler
“Document of protest and compassion.”
Kronenberger
“The novel picks apart the willful optimism of the pioneer and questions the limits of individualism”
Blades
