maddy’s Reviews > The Grapes of Wrath > Status Update
maddy
is on page 289 of 464
“The great companies did not know that the line between hunger and anger is a thin line” (284)
“They were migrants. and the hostility changed them, welded them, united them—hostility that made the little towns group and arm as though to repel and invader” (282)
“‘We’re the people that live. They ain’t gonna wipe us out. Why, we’re the people—we go on’” (280)
— Jun 16, 2026 12:02PM
“They were migrants. and the hostility changed them, welded them, united them—hostility that made the little towns group and arm as though to repel and invader” (282)
“‘We’re the people that live. They ain’t gonna wipe us out. Why, we’re the people—we go on’” (280)
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maddy
is on page 436 of 464
“the break had not come; and the break would never come as long as fear could turn to wrath” (435)
— Jun 18, 2026 12:21PM
maddy
is on page 388 of 464
"'If you're in trouble or hurt or need—go to poor people. They're the only ones that'll help—the only ones'" (376)
— Jun 17, 2026 04:55PM
maddy
is on page 350 of 464
“…in the eyes of the people there is the failure; and in the eyes of the hungry, there is a growing wrath. In the souls of the people, the grapes of wrath are filling and growing heavy, growing heavy for the vintage” (349)
“There is a crime here that goes beyond denunciation. There is a sorrow here that weeping cannot symbolize. There is a failure here that topples all our success” (349)
— Jun 16, 2026 08:25PM
“There is a crime here that goes beyond denunciation. There is a sorrow here that weeping cannot symbolize. There is a failure here that topples all our success” (349)
maddy
is on page 346 of 464
“‘They’s change a-comin’. I don’ know what. Maybe we won’t live to see her. But she’s a-comin’. They’s a res’less feelin’.“ (345)
— Jun 16, 2026 08:10PM
