TGOW - quotes Flashcards
Men and women
“Men sang the words, and women hummed the tunes”
The owners perspectives
“Some of the owners men were kind because they hated what they had to do, some of them were angry because they hated to be cruel, some of them were cold because long ago they found that one could not be an owner unless they were cold. And all of them were caught in something larger than themselves.”
The Joads being frightened
“Now they were weary and frightened because they had gone against a system they did not understand and it had beaten them”
Companies - hunger/anger
“the great companies did not know that the line between hunger and anger is a thin line”
Casy - collective identity
“But when they’re all working together, not one fella for another fella, but one fella kind of harnessed to the whole shebang - that’s right, that’s holy”
Ma about others
“These folks is our folks”
Monster/banks
“When the monster stops growing, it dies. It can’t stay one size”
