#The Grapes of Wrath

[dathen]

Hitting the California agricultural industry portion of The Grapes of Wrath and am bouncing off the walls and breathing fire

[intellectualpoaching]

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. The fertile earth, the straight tree rows, the sturdy trunks, and the ripe fruit. And children dying of pellagra must die because a profit cannot be taken from an orange. And coroners must fill in the certificate- died of malnutrition- because the food must rot, must be forced to rot. The people come with nets to fish for potatoes in the river, and the guards hold them back; they come in rattling cars to get the dumped oranges, but the kerosene is sprayed. And they stand still and watch the potatoes float by, listen to the screaming pigs being killed in a ditch and covered with quick-lime, watch the mountains of oranges slop down to a putrefying ooze; and 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.

John Steinbeck, The Grapes of Wrath

[literatureaesthetic]

just finished 'east of eden', and the urge to write a wholeass dissertation on it is STRONG lmao. i'm so happy i decided to purchase 'grapes of wrath' earlier this week, i can't wait to explore more of steinbeck's brilliant mind 🤍

[thebarroomortheboy]

John Steinbeck was particularly enamored with the performance of Henry Fonda as Tom Joad, feeling that he perfectly encapsulated everything he wanted to convey with this character. The two became good friends. Indeed Fonda did a reading at Steinbeck's funeral.

HENRY FONDA in THE GRAPES OF WRATH (1940) | dir. John Ford

[stastrodome]

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- Post Malone was once the backup catcher for the San Diego Padres. 

- The proper demonym for people who live in Worcester, Massachusetts is “Woostookian”.

- Winston Churchill had a pet turtle he named “Davey”. 

- After a disastrous semi-public attempt at pumpkin spice scones, Betty Crocker withdrew from society and she would yell “keep moving!” to people who walked near her house. 

- In Steinbeck’s original draft of The Grapes of Wrath, Tom Joad is going to California to audition for a part in a Busby Berkeley musical. 

[peggy-elise]

Henry Fonda and Jane Darwell in The Grapes of Wrath 1940 🧶

[citizenscreen]

John Steinbeck’s “The Grapes of Wrath” was first published on April 14, 1939

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[diaryofaphilosopher]

It is not so very hard to judge a story after it is written, but after many years, to start a story still scares me to death. I will go so far as to say that the writer who is not scared is happily unaware of the remote and tantalizing majesty of the medium.

— John Steinbeck, in a letter congratulating his former creative writing professor at Stanford, Edith Mirrielees, for the paperback publication of her book, Story Writing.

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[witherydithery]

The strategy to getting through classic literature is to be really weird about one character.

[classichollywoodarchive]

HENRY FONDA, JANE DARWELL, AND DORIS BOWDON IN THE GRAPES OF WRATH (1940)

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[dathen]

GNASHING MY TEETH

[violentdevotion]

[fragmentedexcess]

"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. The fertile earth, the straight tree rows, the sturdy trunks, and the ripe fruit. And children dying of pellagra must die because a profit cannot be taken from an orange. And coroners must fill in the certificates—died of malnutrition—because the food must rot, must be forced to rot.

The people come with nets to fish for potatoes in the river, and the guards hold them back; they come in rattling cars to get the dumped oranges, but the kerosene is sprayed. And they stand still and watch the potatoes float by, listen to the screaming pigs being killed in a ditch and covered with quicklime, watch the mountains of oranges slop down to a putrefying ooze; and in the eyes of the people there is 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."

[hollywoodlady]

Henry Fonda in 'The Grapes of Wrath' (1940).

[moment-japan]

米国映画「The Grapes of Wrath（怒りの葡萄）」（1940）

原作：John Ernst Steinbeck

監督：ジョン・フォード

脚本：ナナリー・ジョンソン

出演：ヘンリー・フォンダ、ジェーン・ダーウェル、ジョン・キャラダイン、他　

僕の中で、死ぬまでに一度���見なくてはいけない映画の1本であったアメリカ文学を代表する作品「The Grapes of Wrath」。

自然の猛威と不条理な資本主義に対する直接的な告発作品ともいえるこの映画を正月に、BSの放送大学で放送大学の教授による詳細な解説と共に放送されることを知って早速テレビの前に・・。

1930年代末、アメリカ中西部を襲った干ばつをきっかけに、農業の機械化を進める資本家と貧困小作農民との軋轢を描いた映画。

主人公トム・ジョードとその家族のオクラホマにある農場はダストボール（砂嵐）によって耕作不能に。

彼らは、家財すべてを売り払いそのお金で買った古い中古車に乗り込み、移住先のカリフォルニアを目しルート66を辿る旅に出るが、年老いて病気がちな祖父や祖母はアリゾナ砂漠やロッキー山脈越えに耐えることができず命を落とし、従妹もあまりの過酷さに途中逃亡。

苦難の末、辿り着いた楽園カリフォルニアは大恐慌と機械化農業のために土地を失って職を求める多くのオクラホマ農民で溢れかえり、夢も希望も大きく打ち砕かれる・・。

彼ら移住者は、地元民から蔑まれながら貧民キャンプを転々とし、地主の言い値の超低賃金で、日雇い労働をするほかなかった。

やがて彼ら小作農民の不満と怒りは頂点に達し、一つの大事件が起こる・・。

最後の最後まで息子のことを想うママ・ジョードが泣けるし、最後にママ・ジョードが呟く「先の者が後にまわり、後の者が先頭になる」という新約聖書の言葉に胸が詰まる。

豊饒な「約束の地」であるカリフォルニアを目指すところは、旧約聖書のエクソダス「出エジプト記」をモチーフに、タイトルの「The Grapes of Wrath（怒りの葡萄）」は、ヨハネの黙示録の題材からとられたもので、神の怒り��よって踏み潰される葡萄（人間）のことと解釈されています。

原作者のジョン・スタインベックはこの小説で1940年にピューリッツァー賞を受賞し、「The Grapes of Wrath（怒りの葡萄）」の総発売数は全世界で約1500万冊に。

この映画はアカデミー賞の監督賞、助演女優賞（ジェーン・ダーウェル）を受賞。

彼は、1962年にノーベル文学賞も受賞しましたが、受賞理由も本作の作品が決め手になったそうです。