The Grapes of Wrath ALL Flashcards
Hughes
“Steinbeck countered the idealism of the frontier”
Spangler
“Steinbeck has smashed the notions of the American dream”
Malcolm Cowley
“What one remembers most of all is Steinbeck’s sympathy for the migrants.”
Mark Twain
“Failure is not the dark side of the American Dream it is the foundation of it.”
Peter Monroe Jack
“While they work they live in what might as well be called concentration camps.”
“Family’s…”
“Family’s here.” - Ma
“Okie…”
“Okie means you’re scum.” - Man in pool C18
“She walked…”
“She walked for the family and held her head straight for the family.” - C13
“Twenty…”
“Twenty families became one family.” - C17
“We’ll have…”
“We’ll have a place, little bit of a place.” - Rose Of Sharon C16
“For your…”
“For your three dollars a day fifteen or twenty families can’t eat at all.” - Tractor driver C5
“muscles…”
“muscles aching to work, minds aching to create”
“We’re…”
“We’re Joads. We don’t look up to nobody. “
“Ma looked to…”
“Ma looked to Tom to speak, because he was a man“
“The men…”
“The men were ruthless because the past had been spoiled“
