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Quotes - The great Gatsby and Grapes of wrath.

The great Gatsby: Gatsby (parties) - “In his blue gardens men and girls came and went like moths among the whisperings and the champagne and the stars” Tom Buchanan and Daisy Buchanan (money) “They were careless people, Tom and Daisy—they smashed up things and . . . then retreated back into their money . . . and let other people clean up the mess they had made.” Daisy Buchanan (love) “Oh, you want too much!” she cried to Gatsby. “I love you now—isn’t that enough? I can’t help what’s past.” She began to sob helplessly. “I did love him once—but I loved you too Gatsby - I like large parties. They’re so intimate. At small parties there isn’t any privacy.” –

"I knew it was a great mistake for a man like me to fall in love..." Nick - "Her voice is full of money. That was it. I'd never understood before. It was full of money

Critics: Claire stocks - Nick wants to portray Gatsby as 'great' and to ignore or edit anything that might undermine that image' David - 'Nick is considered to be quite reliable, basically honest and ultimately changed by his contact with Gatsby'

Meneken - only Gatsby himself lives and breathes all others are lifeless

Grapes of Wrath: “There ain't no sin and there ain't no virtue. There's just stuff people do.”

(wealth) “Our people are good people; our people are kind people. Pray God someday kind people won’t all be poor.” (wealth) “If you’re in trouble or hurt or need–go to poor people. They’re the only ones that’ll help–the only ones.” "They breathe profits; they eat the interest on money. If they don't get it, they die the way you die without air, without side-meat." "The migrant people, scuttling for work, scrabbling to live, looked always for pleasure, dug for pleasure, manufactured pleasure, and they were hungry for amusement." Casy: I wouldn't pray just for a old man that's dead, cause he's all right. If I was to pray, I'd pray for folks that's alive and don't know which way to turn. Tom Joad: If there was a law, they was workin' with maybe we could take it, but it ain't the law. They're workin' away our spirits, tryin' to make us cringe and crawl, takin' away our decency. "They breathe profits; they eat the interest on money. If they don't get it, they die the way you die without air, without side-meat." "The bank is something more than men, I tell you. It's the monster. Men made it, but they can't control it." Al Joad: Ain't you gonna look back, Ma? Give the ol' place a last look? Ma Joad: We're going' to California, ain't we? All right then let's go to California. Al Joad: That don't sound like you, Ma. You never was like that before.

Ma Joad: I never had my house pushed over before. Never had my family stuck out on the road. Never had to lose everything I had in life.

“If you’re in trouble or hurt or need–go to poor people. They’re the only ones that’ll help–the only ones.”

Critics: Motley - (Women- Ultimately gain power in novel- could represent women gaining more power. However, power is only as a mother. Love- This is out of Ma's love for her family. Gatsby link- motherhood and family are unimportant in the novel. Daisy's family lacks structure and she is not in control)

Levant - “The human reality.... The human reality of California life is a living death...