The Dispossessed Professors

By Jonathan Rees - Chronicle Vitae. “Rich fellas come up an' they die, an' their kids ain't no good an' they die out. But we keep a'comin'. We're the people that live. They can't wipe us out; they can't lick us. We'll go on forever, Pa, 'cause we're the people.”
—Jane Darwell as Ma Joad, The Grapes of Wrath, 1940.
I hated The Grapes of Wrath the first time I read it. That was in high school. I think it was because the ending was so depressing. See more...