Grapes Critics

Question 1

Arthur Miller, political life

Answer 1

An American writer who deeply penetrated the political life of the country

Question 2

How was the novel first received

Answer 2

People banned the book in Kern County and burned a copy in symbolic gesture and petitioned to congress to have the novel formally removed

Question 3

Yanhong Fan (Jim Casey)

Answer 3

His messages broaden man’s sense of spiritualcommunity

Question 4

Stokes, rationality

Answer 4

Steinbeck portrays a failure in American thought and rationality

Question 5

Spangler, American dream

Answer 5

Steinbeck had smashed the notions of the American dream

Question 6

Hughes, idealism

Answer 6

Steinbeck countered the idealism of the frontier

Question 7

Rachel Hanson, capitalism

Answer 7

Steinbeck represents the problems a capitalist society creates for working class people

Question 8

Jenny, Tom Joad

Answer 8

A heroic figure of masculine independence, leadership and self sacrifice

Question 9

Nelson-slight, Marxism

Answer 9

Steinbeck is not chained to the Marxist loom but is in raged at the violation between man and soil

Question 10

Gerald Haslam, outrage

Answer 10

It certainly was intended as an expression of outrage