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The Grapes of Wrath
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A 1939 novel by John Steinbeck, winner of the 1940 Pulitzer Prize. The book makes a strong political statement (of the social liberal kind), and is pretty much the antithesis of anything by Ayn Rand. The story follows the Joads, a poor family from Oklahoma hit by the dust bowl that travel all the way to California (losing the grandparents along the way) to find jobs on farms. Sadly, they discover that work conditions are horrid and farms are overpopulated and people are paid poorly. The content and themes of The Grapes of Wrath made it very controversial in its day, and it remains divisive more than eight decades after its publication. What isn't denied is that the novel was extremely influential.Adapted into a film only a year after it was published. It was directed by John Ford and starred Henry Fonda, in what is considered to be among the finest works from both legends. Ford regular John Carradine also appeared in the film, while Jane Darwell earned the Best Supporting Actress Academy Award for her performance as Ma Joad. The movie was considered to be the Great American Film before Citizen Kane was rediscovered in the late '50s. Steinbeck himself considered it an improvement on his book. Also adapted into a play in 1988. The Steppenwolf Theater's 1990 version starring Gary Sinise and Lois Smith was filmed and aired on PBS's American Playhouse on March 22, 1991. | |
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Dirty Coward | |
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Connie is described as resembling a coyote. | |
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Title Drop | |
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Title Drop: Comes at the end of the 25th chapter: "In the souls of the people the grapes of wrath are filling and growing heavy, growing heavy for the vintage." | |
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Punch-Clock Villain | |
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Punch-Clock Villain: Virtually every baddie. Discussed in a tragicomic scene where a fellow forced off his farm tries to figure out who he should shoot in revenge. | |
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Crapsack World | |
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Crapsack World: America during the Great Depression wasn't a happy place, and the Dust Bowl had it especially bad. | |
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Knight in Sour Armor | |
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Knight in Sour Armor: Rose of Sharon is cynical and pessimistic throughout the novel...but at the end, when only she can save the day, she does. | |
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As the Good Book Says... | |
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As the Good Book Says...: Steinbeck uses Bible quotes when they agree with what he's trying to say, but states that Christianity, as Casy used to practice it, has a lot wrong with it. | |
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Barefoot Poverty | |
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Barefoot Poverty: The tractor driver said that his youngest kid never had any shoes. | |
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Shoot the Shaggy Dog | |
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Shoot the Shaggy Dog | |
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Gas Mask Mooks | |
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Gas Mask Mooks: The tractor drivers in the movie, looking distinctly inhuman. The one who talks to Muley Graves just wears goggles, however. | |
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Literary Allusion Title | |
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Literary Allusion Title: From Julia Ward Howe's hymn, which in turn was inspired by Revelation 14:19–20. | |
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Walking the Earth | |
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Walking the Earth: Tom Joad at the end. Could almost be the Trope Namer. | |
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Significant Monogram | |
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Significant Monogram: Jim Casy, a Christ figure with the initials J.C. | |
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Unnamed Parent | |
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Unnamed Parent: Tom's parents are referred as Ma and Pa. Pa's name is also Tom, but Ma's name is never revealed. | |
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Ludd Was Right | |
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Ludd Was Right: Zig-zagged. The farmers are driven away from their lands because a man with a tractor can do the work of a dozen families. Working the land with tractors is described negatively; people lose contact with the land, and become machine-like, unfeeling, uncaring. However, it's later stated that the real problem is not technology, but that the people who work the land don't own it. | |
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Doomed Hometown | |
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Doomed Hometown: The Depression and the Dust Bowl destroy countless communities in Oklahoma. | |
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Funetik Aksent | |
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Funetik Aksent: To the point where Rosasharn's name is rendered as "Rose of Sharon" in dialogue. | |
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Author Tract | |
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Author Tract: And plenty of Author Filibusters, too. A few do fit into why the Joads are going through such trouble, but most of them pop right out of left field. Also a reminder that Tropes Are Not Bad. | |
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Forced from Their Home | |
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Forced from Their Home: Many famlies in Oklahoma, including the Joads end up homeless after the bank forclosed on their house. | |
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White-and-Grey Morality | |
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White-and-Grey Morality: The Joads, our protagonists, are mostly saintly and caring, as are some of the other people they meet on their journey. Meanwhile, the opposition they encounter are not outright villains, but just people doing their jobs under a broken system. | |
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Central Theme | |
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Central Theme: Capitalism Is Bad. The saving power of family and fellowship. The dignity of wrath. The multiplying effects of both selfishness and altruism. | |
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The Casanova | |
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The Casanova: Al Joad. He is seen all over the novel chasing different women, to the point where he's ready to abandon his family for a girl he had just met. | |
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The Promised Land | |
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The Promised Land: California. Subverted in the fact that everyone else had the same idea of going there, and the Okies are blocked from getting anything decent out of it, forcing them to settle with labor camps. | |
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There Are No Good Executives | |
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There Are No Good Executives: They run their refugee camps like concentration camps (to the point of forbidding workers from leaving), lie about everything, and even employ child labor despite it being illegal. It’s implied that the only reason they’re hiring the Okies is to break strikes. The government-run sanitary units in the film have none of these problems because they are subject to regulation. | |
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My Greatest Failure | |
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My Greatest Failure: In the book, John's wife had died years before after what he'd dismissed as a stomachache turned out to be much more serious. His every action is driven by remorse and atonement, and his self-hatred is such that even other characters consider it whiny. | |
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Honest John's Dealership | |
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Honest John's Dealership: A chapter describes a car dealership that sells old, crappy cars at outrageous prices to the migrating farmers. | |
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Friend to All Children | |
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Friend to All Children: Uncle John. One of the ways he makes up for his guilt over his wife's death is by being especially kind to children. In Hooverville, he can't bring himself to eat his dinner because of the starving children watching. | |
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Chiaroscuro | |
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Chiaroscuro: A gorgeous example in the scene early in the film where Tom comes to his family's home after dark, finds it abandoned, and goes looking around with only a single candle to light the scene. | |
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The Alcoholic | |
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The Alcoholic: Uncle John normally stays away from alcohol, sex, and other such things, but when he gets drunk, he gets really drunk. | |
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Capitalism Is Bad | |
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Capitalism Is Bad. | |
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Bad Cop/Incompetent Cop | |
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Bad Cop/Incompetent Cop: Well, definitely the former half of it. The book attempts a justification: in California at this time, they were paid per arrest, with no deduction for arresting the wrong person. | |
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Epiphora | |
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Epiphora: In this particular sentence: | |
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The Film of the Book | |
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The Film of the Book: A very successful one, amply considered a classic. | |
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Aerith and Bob | |
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Aerith and Bob: The Joad family: Tom, Sr. (Pa), Uncle John, Tom, Al, Noah, Ruthie, Winfield... and Rose of Sharon. | |
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Plucky Comic Relief | |
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Plucky Comic Relief: The irascible, foul-mouthed and senile Grampa Joad. | |
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Chuck Cunningham Syndrome | |
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Chuck Cunningham Syndrome: Noah Joad. In the book, he decides he cares more about the river the family stops by than the family cares for him and leaves; in the movie, the scene is still present but the aforementioned part is not, and Noah simply vanishes. | |
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Iron Lady | |
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Iron Lady: Ma Joad. She exemplifies all the traits but, most importantly, manages to hold the family together through sheer force of will alone. Mellower than most examples. | |
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Messianic Archetype | |
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Messianic Archetype: Jim Casy. His initials are J.C., he sacrifices himself and goes to jail instead of Tom, and his last words before he's murdered are: "You don't know what you're doing", mirroring Jesus's words about his executioners ("Father, forgive them, for they do not know what they are doing."). Tom Joad at the end. | |
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Rabble Rouser | |
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Rabble Rouser: The corrupt Sheriff's department sends agitators to try to cause a riot at the government-run workers' camp. The workers spot the agitators and see them off without trouble. | |
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Just Following Orders | |
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Just Following Orders: The tractor driver who talks to Muley Graves notes that Graves' anger to him for betraying his people is all very well, but he has a family to feed as well; if he quits in outrage, all that'll happen is the banks will hire someone else to do his job, and he and his family will merely end up starving along with everyone else. | |
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Inherent in the System | |
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Inherent in the System: One of the main messages of the novel is that injustice and inequality are inherent in a capitalist society. Chasing the tenants off their land is something nobody really wants, but yet it's done, because the financial system doesn't allow an alternative. As a bank executive puts it: | |
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What Is Evil? | |
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What Is Evil?: Casy provides a rare heroic example. He believes in helping others, but he's no longer so certain that there's anything wrong with, say, free love. | |
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Animal Motifs | |
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Animal Motifs: The book version has in its third chapter a tortoise trying to cross a road and getting run over by a truck. In the fourth chapter, we meet Jim Casy, who's described as having a "long head" and a "beaked" nose. Connie is described as resembling a coyote. | |
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Empathic Environment | |
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Empathic Environment: At the end, it begins to rain heavily when the cotton crop is picked through and the pickers are out of work. | |
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Happily Ever Before | |
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Happily Ever Before: In the book, the Joad family must endure the harsh conditions of the farms, while on the film they just find a good government-run camp and live Happily Ever After. | |
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Secretly Wealthy | |
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Secretly Wealthy: Two unnamed characters discuss this trope. The conversation mostly serves to highlight how ridiculous the trope sounded during the Great Depression, when a substantial part of the population had trouble affording food. | |
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No Ending | |
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No Ending: Tom is gone, a fugitive, and what's left of the Joad family is still in California, their fate uncertain. | |
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Dirty Cop | |
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Dirty Cop: All of them, being completely owned by the wealthy capitalists. They routinely violate people’s constitutional rights, presume that everyone is guilty of a crime without any evidence, tell Blatant Lies about the circumstances of arrests, are implied to make up charges on the spot if someone tries to expose a scam, and essentially act more like the Gestapo or NKVD than any American police officer is expected to be. | |
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Dwindling Party | |
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Dwindling Party: Starting with the dog, the Joads and the people traveling with them leave the party one by one. While some of the characters don't actually die, their departures are treated almost as seriously, given the book's emphasis on family and community. | |
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Good Samaritan | |
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Good Samaritan: Casy is the most prominent, but there are quite a lot of them, particularly in the original book. They're half the point of the story. | |
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The Alleged Car | |
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The Alleged Car: Pretty much every one that the Okies use to go to California. Subverted with the Joad's car; Al's careful selection in the beginning, as well as his and Tom's technical know-how mean that they never have any real trouble with the truck. | |
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Shoo Out the Clowns | |
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Shoo Out the Clowns: As the Great Depression starts hitting the Joads, it's Tom's bumbling, senile grandparents who are the first to die. | |
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Childhood Brain Damage | |
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Childhood Brain Damage: Pa Joad blames himself for his son Noah's slowness as he tried to deliver him on his own, and ended up distorting his head. | |
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Last-Second Chance | |
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Last-Second Chance: Casy attempts this on a strikebreaker, who promptly bashes his head in. | |
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Badass Preacher | |
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Badass Preacher: Jim Casy. Not only does he offer support and consolation to Tom's family even though he's not officially a preacher anymore, but later he even takes the fall for a crime he didn't commit. | |
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