tgow quotes

• Tom's intentions at the start of the novel:

  “I’m just tryin’ to get along without shovin’ nobody around”, Chapter 2
• Chapter 20: The Joads continue to aspire for “a place to stay […] to get work”
• The physical consequence of their haphazard lifestyles appears in Chapter 20, with the unnamed woman: “wizened and dull”, “deep gray pouches under blank eyes”
• The anger of the battered man in Chapter 20: “cops push […] aroun’ so much”
• Casy's departure from religion in Chapter 20: “Use ta rip off a prayer […] But it don’ work no more”
• Microcosmic description of “a lean brown mongrel dog” which is “nervous and flexed to run”, “dodging around a tent to get out of sight” represents the elusiveness of the lives that they live, constantly being moved forward and avoiding figures of authority in Chapter 20
• Departure from serving society, as Ma asserts that she cannot feed the starving children in Chapter 20: “I got to feed the fambly”
• Interchapter 21 explores the consequence of the unjust treatment of the migrants: “The anger began to ferment” 
• The migrants' desperation for work is emphasised in interchapter 21, with them becoming “ravenous for work, murderous for work”
• Jim Casy's revelation on his religious understanding in Chapter 4: “There ain’t no sin and there ain’t no virtue. There’s just stuff people do.”
• Interchapter 5 explores the banks as monsters: "The bank – the monster has to have profits all the time. It can’t wait. It’ll die."
• Ma's responsibility as the family regulator of emotions in Chapter 8: "It was her habit to build up laughter out of inadequate materials."
• Ma as the caretaker, "the citadel of the family", Chapter 8
• The festering discontent of the migrants is established in Chapter 25: "…and in the eyes of the people there is the failure; and in the eyes of the hungry there is a growing wrath."
• Casy's feeling of responsibility in Chapter 4: "There's me with all them people's souls in my han'"
• Interchapter 5 comparing the banks to: "Banks or the Company were a monster"
• Chapter 5, the detachment from emotion: "Some worshipped the mathematics because it provided a refuge from thought and from feeling"
• After Grampa's death in Chapter 13, "the family became a unit"
• In particular Chapter 18, the man says, "we don't want you goddamn Okies settlin' down"
• Themes of disillisionment appear within the family in Chapter 18, with Ma asserting that the: "family's fallin' apart"
• Derogatory depiction of the Okies in Chapter 18: "Okie means you're scum"
• The physical conditions of the Hoovervilles: "rusty corrugated iron", "moldy carpet", "tattered canvas", "cluttered with equipment"
• Connie leaves in Chapter 20, disillusioned with life in California, to: "study 'bout tractors"
• Okies now condemned as "dirty and ignorant [...] degenerate, sexual maniacs" in Chapter 21
• The desperation of migrants in Chapter 21: "eyes of the hungry"