Grapes Critics Flashcards
What did Cowley argue in 1939?
Not just a family but an entire culture is being uprooted
What did Peter Monroe Jack say in 1939?
They turn to their own land to find the seeds of the same destructive hatred
What did Nicholas Treddel say about the novels focus
Think about how this affects Mia’s narrative voice
The focus is in human beings not their inwardness
2 quotations from ‘starvation under the orange tree’ an article published by Steinbeck in 1938
“Dispossessed families”
“(California) cannot feed and clothe the men and women who make it the richest area in the world”
How does Gladstein view the portrayal of women in TGOW?
“(Ma) keeps the family together”
“Indestructible woman”
How does Bragg view the American dream in TGOW?
As in the 1930s there is a powerful feeling that the promised land promises nothing”
