#The Grapes of Wrath

[askyea-poesy]

It was her habit to build laughter out of inadequate materials.

John Steinbeck

[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 🤍

[facts-i-just-made-up]

What are the "Grapes of Wrath" exactly?

It's a phrase inspired by a misreading of Revelation 14, in which an angel reaps the souls of humankind and forces them like grapes into a wine press, which expels the blood of God's anger to flood the world the the height of a horse's bridle.

The first popular phrasing in English with "The Battle Hymn of the Republic" as "The Grapes of Wrath" took the then-common Queen Anne Bible translation which suggested the "Grapes of Wrath" were physical objects despite the original Greek clearly stating this was a metaphor in Revelation 27, accurately translated, "To be clear this is all metaphor for why Rome can suck it. Fuck Rome. Jerks."

The term was further used by Ernest Hemingway for the title of his novel, "The Old Man And The Sea." Though future historians will believe this was also in error and I meant to type "The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck," no, I didn't.

In any case, the original phrase and its application were very much a product of their time and with changes in the church, the perception of sin, and culinary arts, the proper modern phrase would be more directly, "The Taquitos of Apathy," or perhaps in Calvinist circles, "The Oatmeal of Inevitability."

[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]

Fun Facts. 100% verified.

- 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.

[dathen]

GNASHING MY TEETH

[classichollywoodarchive]

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

images from imdb

[tannertbosas]

Tom Joad & Connie Rivers

First two from my series of Grapes Of Wrath designs

[dreamyyfox]

"It's too much—livin' too many lives. Up ahead they's a thousan' lives we might live, but when it comes, it'll on'y be one."

The Grapes of Wrath, John Steinbeck

[cinemaorlure]

The Grapes of Wrath, John Ford (1940)