Quotes Flashcards
VoA
A fantastic farm where ashes grow like wheat
Party + house
Once a fortnight a corps of caterers came down
Colossal affair vs.a georgian colonial mansion
M dead
Her life violently extinguished
G funeral vs. timetable vs. love
Nobody came vs. practice elocution and poise
Smiling like a weatherman …. his mind would never romp again like the mind of God vs. they were conspiring together
Banks
They breathe profits; they eat the interest on money
Community
Not mine, but ours … from ‘I’ to ‘we’ … the family became a unit
Gender
Seems like women is tellin now
Dreams vs. hunger
We’ll live in town and go to the pictures (RoS) … I want a little house (Ma) … vs. so goddam hungry they’ll work for nothing
Ma + help from the poor
The family looked at Ma in terror at her strength … if you’re in trouble or hurt or need — go to the poor. They’re the only ones that’ll help
Weedpatch vs. Hooverville
Central committee keeps order
a great junk pile
Ma and RoS vs. naive
The two women looked deep into eachother vs. wishes Connie was here
Ma: I knew you would
She smiled mysteriously
Taste
Few things seemed to Archer more awful than an offence against Taste
vs. she was so different … so careless of th dictates of Taste
Marriage
He saw his marriage becoming what most other marriages about him were
Alone
The reall loneliness is living among all these kind of people who only ask one to pretend
Illusion
It is more real to me here than if I went up there
