The Grapes of Wrath CRITICS 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”
Warren Motley
“The Joad family shifts from a patriarchal structure to a predominantly matriarchal one”
Eun-Young Lim
“Tom’s conscience was changed from a loner who cared nothing about the people to hardy leader of them.”
Lisca
“Out of the profoundest depth of despair comes the greatest assertion of faith”
Rahv
“far too didactic and long-winded”
Crockett
“Not a promised land, but a blighted eden”
DeMott
“Praised by the left as a triumph of proletarian writing”
