Grapes quotes

Question 1

Casy holy

Answer 1

‘But when they’re all workin’ together…that’s right, that’s holy.’

Question 2

Tom following Casy

Answer 2

‘Maybe all men got one big soul ever’body’s a part of’

Question 3

Tom’s transformation

Answer 3

‘Wherever they’s a fight so hungry people can eat, I’ll be there.’

Question 4

The resilience of man

Answer 4

‘Having stepped forward, he may slip back, but only half a step, never the full step back.’

Question 5

Okie

Answer 5

‘Now it means you’re a dirty son-of-a-bitch. Okie means you’re scum.’

Question 6

Families

Answer 6

‘the twenty families became one family, the children were the children of all. The loss of home became one loss’

Question 7

Ma community

Answer 7

‘Use’ ta be the family was fust. It ain’t so now. It’s anybody.’

Question 8

Ma Rosa’s dream

Answer 8

‘Ma suddenly seemed to know it was all a dream’

Question 9

Touching oranges

Answer 9

‘a guy with a gun that got the right to kill you if you touch one.’

Question 10

Business corruption

Answer 10

‘Fella in business got to lie an’ cheat’

Question 11

Ma poor people

Answer 11

‘If you’re in trouble or hurt or need – go to poor people. They’re the only ones that’ll help – the only ones.’

Question 12

Women and children

Answer 12

‘Women and children knew deep in themselves that no misfortune was too great to bear if their men were whole’

Question 13

Ma gender roles

Answer 13

‘She let him have the chance that was his right, and then she said…’

Question 14

Men stealing

Answer 14

‘beg for bread, to beg for rotting vegetables, to steal when they could’

Question 15

Tenant farmer shooting

Answer 15

‘I don’t aim to starve to death before I kill the man that’s starving me.’

Question 16

The bank

Answer 16

‘It’s the monster. Men made it, but they can’t control it.’

Question 17

Tractor

Answer 17

‘One man on a tractor can take the place of twelve or fourteen families.’

Question 18

Muley Graves

Answer 18

“They ain’t whole, out lonely on the road in a piled-up car. They ain’t alive no more. Them sons-a-bitches killed ‘em.”

Question 19

Revolution

Answer 19

‘The danger is here, for two men are not as lonely and perplexed as one.’

Question 20

Murderous

Answer 20

‘men ravenous for work, murderous for work.’

Question 21

Children

Answer 21

‘And children dying of pellagra must die because a profit cannot be taken from an orange.’

Question 22

Food rotting

Answer 22

‘And coroners must fill in the certificates – died of malnutrition – because the food must rot, must be forced to rot.’

Question 23

grapes of wrath

Answer 23

‘In the souls of people the grapes of wrath are filling and growing heavy, growing heavy for the vintage.’

Question 24

Ma’s dream

Answer 24

‘Never cold. An’ fruit ever’place, an’ people just bein’ in the nicest places, little white houses in among the orange trees.’

Question 25

Ma family

Answer 25

‘she seemed to know that if she swayed the family shook’

Question 26

Salesmen

Answer 26

‘salesmen, neat, deadly, small intent eyes watching for weakness’

Question 27

Muley on capitalism

Answer 27

‘chopped folks in two for their margin a profit

Question 28

Tom communist

Answer 28

“I’m bolshevisky”

Question 29

Ma in control

Answer 29

‘She was the power. She had taken control’

Question 30

Rich ladies

Answer 30

‘languid, heat-raddled ladies’

Question 31

Rich aren’t happy

Answer 31

‘Lines of weariness around the eyes, lines of discontent down from the mouth

Question 32

Racism

Answer 32

“they ain’t a hell of a lot better than gorillas”

Question 33

Hooverville

Answer 33

‘a great junk pile’

Question 34

Government camps

Answer 34

“treat ya like a man ‘stead of a dog”

Question 35

Rich people don’t care

Answer 35

‘comfortable people in tight houses felt pity at first, and then distaste, and finally hatred for the migrant people’