Pablo and Pilon sublet their house to Jesus Maria. Pablo, Pilon and Danny discuss women and the payment of rent. Drunk a second time, Pilon sublets half his house to Pablo.Ĥ How Jesus Maria Corcoran, a good man, became an unwilling vehicle of evil. Danny and Pilon share wine, two women, and a fight. Pilon kills a rooster, rents Danny's second house for money which it is understood he will never pay, and exchanges paper roses for a gallon of Señora Torelli's wine.ģ How the poison of possessions wrought with Pilon, and how evil temporarily triumphed in him. Danny fails to get the water turned on. After escaping, Danny talks his friend, a clever man named Pilon into sharing his brandy and his houses.Ģ How Pilon was lured by greed of position to forsake Danny's hospitality. He and the jailer drink wine at Torelli's. After working as a mule-driver during The Great War, Danny returns to find he has inherited two houses from his deceased grandfather. Steinbeck is also known as a regionalist, naturalist, mystic, proletarian writer, moved to anger by the brutality of the Depression.1 How Danny, home from the wars, found himself an heir, and how he swore to protect the helpless. Seventeen of his works, including “Cannery Row” and “The Pearl”, went on to become Hollywood films, and Steinbeck himself succeeded as a Hollywood writer, garnering an Academy Award nomination for Best Writing for Alfred Hitchcock's “Lifeboat”, in 1945. His body of work reflects his wide range of interests, including marine biology, jazz, politics, philosophy, history, and myth. His characters and his stories were taken from real life struggles in the first half of the 20th century. Steinbeck wrote in the naturalist style, portraying people as the center of his stories. A winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1962, he is best known for his novella “Of Mice and Men” (1937) and his Pulitzer Prize-winning novel “The Grapes of Wrath” (1939), both of which examine the lives of the working class and the migrant worker during the Great Depression. John Steinbeck (1902 – 1968) was unarguably one of the best American writers of the 20th century.
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