The Grapes of Wrath Quotes

Women and children knew deep in themselves that no misfortune was too great to bear if their men were whole.

After witnessing the weather conditions, the people realise that sticking together will benefit them

sometimes a guy'll be a good guy even if some rich bastard makes him carry a sticker.

Tom telling the driver that he sould help him despite it going against his complany's policy

There ain’t no sin and there ain’t no virtue. There’s just stuff people do.

Casy talking about his struggles with religion

Maybe it's all men an' women we love; maybe that's the Holy Sperit
Maybe all men got one big soul ever'body's a part of

Casy's opinions on the oversoul

Some of the owner men were kind because they hated what they had to do, and some of them were angry because they hated to be cruel

The feelings of people who worked under the banks

I ain’t sayin’ I’m like Jesus…But I got tired like Him, an’ I got mixed up like Him, an’ I went into the wilderness like Him

Casy comparing himself and his experiences to Jesus

And now they were weary and frightened because they had gone against a system they did not understand and it had beaten them.

The Joad's aren't able to win in their situation

It ain't kin we? It's will we?
The Joads discussing if they can move to California

the machine man, driving a dead tractor on land he does not know and love, understands only chemistry
The farmers who use tractors don't have the same emotions behind their actions

The people in flight from the terror behind—strange things happen to them, some bitterly cruel and some so beautiful that the faith is refired forever.
Families who migrate face different experiences

We’re proud to help. I ain’t felt so—safe in a long time. People needs—to help
Showing how people feel safer when they're working together

This fella wants eight hundred men. So he prints up five thousand of them things an' maybe twenty thousan' people sees 'em. An' maybe two-three thousan' folks gets movin' account a this here han'bill
Shows why there were so many people moving to California and explains why its so hard to find a job

That’s how cops like us…be bull-simple
The migrants have to seem like they are less of a threat

The great companies did not know that the line between hunger and anger is a thin line
People will revolt if they are desperate

In the eyes of the people there is the failure; and in the eyes of the hungry there is a growing wrath

If you're in trouble or hurt or need—go to poor people. They're the only ones that'll help—the only ones

Joad reached forward and crushed its hard skull-like head with his fingers
Tom killing a grasshopper - forshadowing violent tendancies

A land turtle crawled, turning aside for nothing, dragging hin high-domed shell over the ground

Got a lot of sinful idears - but they seem kinda sensible

Tom's a great one
Like TGG

He loved the land no more than the bank loved the land

What's come over you, Muley? You wasn't never no run-an'-hide fella. You was mean

I don't want nothing for more'n twenty-five, thirty bucks. Sell 'em for fifty, seventy-five
Talking about selling cars and taking advantage of customers

If she ever really deeply wavered or despaired the family would fall
First impression of Ma

Try to get some freedon to do. Fella says you're just as free as you got jack to pay for it

She looked up and across the barn, and her lips came together and siled mysteriously