The Grapes of Wrath - Critics
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- The Grapes of Wrath - Critics
- Love
- "Rose is not a love symbol, but a survival symbol." - Steinbeck
- "The only light we have is the light we create for ourselves by our compassion and love." - Steinbeck
- Money and materialism
- "In California, a fella can get a little money but nothing he wants." - Collins
- Appearance v reality
- "Not a promised land, but a blighted Eden." - Crockett
- "A tale of dashed illusions and betrayed promises." - Owens
- "[Characters are] essentially symbolic marionettes." - Kazin
- Life and death
- "A greater tragedy than death is a burnt-out bearing." - Cowley
- Women
- "During times of high unemployment... the women step in as master of the house." - Collins
- "Ma Joad, the family's core." - Haslam
- Masculinity
- "The Joad family shifts from a patriarchal structure to a predominantly matriarchal one." - Motley
- Women
- "During times of high unemployment... the women step in as master of the house." - Collins
- "Ma Joad, the family's core." - Haslam
- Women
- "[Tom Joad is] a heroic figure of masculine independence." - Williamson
- "The Joad family shifts from a patriarchal structure to a predominantly matriarchal one." - Motley
- The American Dream
- "Smashed the notions of the American Dream." - Spangler
- "Picks apart the willful optimism of the pioneer and questions the limits of individualism." - Blades
- Morality
- "Dignity is all gone, and spirit turns to sullen anger before it dies." - Steinbeck
- Social class
- "Grapes of Wrath casts them [the Joads] as backward, barely educated, even premodern." - Gregory
- "Praised by the left as a triumph of proletarian writing." - DeMott
- Religion
- "Jim Casy is a secular Jesus Christ." - Bloom
- "[Jim Casy's] messages considerably broaden man's sense of spiritual community." - Fan
- "Echoes the biblical journey towards Canaan." - Ownes
- Love
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