criminality

grapes of wrath:

• great depression, dust bowl - mass displacement, unemployment

• violence from people and state

• portrayed as raw and real, product of poverty

• tom kills a man in self defence and then in revenge

• reed - “death is associated with survival for the migrants”

• “prison calm”

great gatsby:

• roaring 20s - tax cuts, consumerism

• alcohol, prohibition

• pauly - “upturned the idea that criminals are low lifes”

• “shirts with stripes and scrolls and plaids in coral..”

• “fine specimen of human molars”