![]() ![]() The five main characters, also known as paisanos, who live in Danny’s house are drunkards, thieves, and vagabonds. The setting of the novel is Tortilla Flat, a town located above Monterey, California. The story evolves into five friends living in the house: Pilon, Pablo, Jesus Maria Corcoran, Big Joe Portagee, and The Pirate (described as a man whose mind did not grow up with his body, he is a little bit slow and gets easily taken advantage of throughout the novel). ![]() Pilon soon talks to his friend named Pablo, who also is invited to live in the house, but Pilon mentions to Pablo that a fifteen dollar rent will be due. Danny talks to his friend named Pilon into sharing his brandy and one of his houses (for a fifteen dollar rent). While in jail, he shares a drink with his jailer, and not long after, manages to escape. In what is a recurring theme in the novel, Danny gets drunk and is thrown in jail. When Danny came home from the army he learned that he was an heir and owner of property. After he gets back to California, he finds out that he has inherited two houses from his deceased grandfather. For example, the first chapter is titled “How Danny, home from the wars, found himself an heir, and how he swore to protect the helpless.” The story begins with us finding out about Danny, who used to work as a mule driver during World War I. The novel is split into seventeen chapters, each with a descriptive title. It’s a fairly short read, and I read the novel from the Library of America edition. This is one of Steinbeck’s earlier novels, published in 1935. ![]() I finished reading John Steinbeck’s Tortilla Flat this weekend. ![]()
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