Grapes of Wrath Quotes Chapters 1 - 13

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"The women studied the men's faces secretly”
women reacting to men
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"The men sat still - thinking - figuring."
men are in charge of how to deal with the dustbowl
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"sometimes a guy'll be a good guy even if some rich bastard makes him carry a sticker."
Tom Joad manipulating the lorry driver
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‘…spearhead seeds stuck in the ground…its shell dragged dirt over them.’
brutal imagery of farming?
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" there ain't no sin and there ain't no virtue.”
Jim Casy, there’s no morality / religion anymore
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Banks "breathe profits; they eat interest on money. If they don't get it, they die the way you die without air, without side-meat."
corporations are only driven by money
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"Salesmen, neat, deadly, small intent eyes watching for weakness."
manipulative, heartless capitalists
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"Pur-raise Gawd fur vittory!"
Granma and Granpa see Tom when he gets back from prison
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"Gonna get me a whole big bunch of grapes off a bush, … I'm gonna squash 'em on my face an' let 'em run offen my chin."
Grampa’s indulgence for when they arrive at California
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‘the citadel of the family, the stronghold place that could not be taken.’
the strength of their familial bond
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‘it was her habit to build up laughter out of inadequate materials.’
Ma Joad taking care of emotional well-being
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‘if she swayed, the family shook’
Ma is the crux of the Joads
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"You're not buying only junk, you're buying junked lives."
families selling their goods for v little; whose buying them anyhow? They are just prolonging their inevitable departure
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‘Never cold. An’ fruit ever’ place, an’ people just bein’ in the nicest places, little white houses in among the orange trees.’
idyllic idea of Californian houses
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“They’s too much of it to do to split it up into men’s or women’s work.”
Jim Casy helping and resisting gendered work
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"It ain't kin we? It's will we”
Ma Joad being a voice of intellect and reason; she allows Casy to join the family, and her opinion is respected
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"This here is my country. I b'long here. "
Grandpa doesn’t want to leave Oklahoma, he is intrinsically linked to the land
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"The machine man, driving the dead tractor on land he does not know and love, understands only chemistry."
Tennant workers have a much more emotional connection to the land, makes their departure more heart breaking
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"Grampa didn't die tonight. He died the minute you took 'm off the place."
a part of Grampa was woven into the land