The Only Use of
perception
in
The Grapes of Wrath
- A twitch at the controls could swerve the cat', but the driver's hands could not twitch because the monster that built the tractor, the monster that sent the tractor out, had somehow got into the driver's hands, into his brain and muscle, had goggled him and muzzled him—goggled his mind, muzzled his speech, goggled his perception, muzzled his protest.†
Chpt 5
Definitions:
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(1)
(perception as in: perception of injustice) a belief or opinion formed by viewing things a certain way
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(2)
(perception as in: perception of external stimuli) something that someone senses; or the act of sensing