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American Literature - Coggle Diagram

- - - - ‘On buffet tables, garnished with glistening hors d’ouvre, spiced baked hams crowded against salads of harlequin designs.’ Chapt 3. Nick attends a lavish party. Sheer amount of food - enormous economic expansion post WW1. Consumed in consumerism - ‘harlequin’ typically means enchanted or a joker in a pantomime - deserving of criticism/ridiculous
    - - ‘Fear the time when Manself will not suffer and die for a concept, for this one quality is the foundation of Manself, and this one quality is man,’ Chapter 14. Influx of migrant workers fighting for better wages and work quality. Steinbeck suggests by doing so they are in fact fighting for a sense of dignity - material desires stir people onward, in doing so understand what really defines humans convincing themselves that a better life is possible.
      - ‘Maybe we can get one of those little white houses in amongst the orange trees.’ Ma before leaving for California. There dreams for wealth stem from survival - only what's necessary.
    - - Great Gatbsy. ‘is under no obligations to sell [Wilson] a car’
      - ‘Twelve curved irone penes erected in the foundry, organisms set by gears, raping methodically’ Chapter 5. he term, ‘raping methodically’ provides a very unatural tone, suggesting that the private banks have created a very harsh and unforgiving process which does not care how many farmers livelihoods it disrupts in its lustful search for profit.
        
        sock it to em! start with a buick then sell them a ford!'
  - - - ‘I am the son of some wealthy people in the Middle West - all dead now.’ - Gatsby. creates this false identity that he hoped Daisy will love him for, but she doesn't.
      - mHostility changed them and united them'
  - - - 'left breast wwinging loose like a flap'. discarded by Tom Buchanan.
    - - blame big busines.
        
        A million people hungry, needing the fruit—and kerosene sprayed over the golden mountains.
- - - - results in his death and the death of myrtle. tragedy.
    - - results in the belief of the Oversoul, which is pivotal in the novel.
- - - - 'migrant workers become a community. gain identity through beleif in the oversoul. ''hostility changed them and united them'. 'maybe we are all a part of one big soul'
      - 'okie used to mean you were from Oklahoma, now it just means you are a son of a bitch'
  - - - his dreem of 'sucking on the pap of life.' 'milk of wonder'
    - - ''being born on it, working it, dying on it. That makes ownership, not a paper with numbers on it’
        
        Jeffersonian Agrarianism.
      - pa Joad 'would have to whop her with a jackhandle' if Pa Joad wanted