Part one of term paper
John Steinbeck has a unique ability to portray characters wholly through the smallest of details. Steinbeck was born in Salema, California in 1902 and held many different working class jobs. In these jobs he encountered many different types of people that later became the basis of a lot of Steinbeck’s characters. Steinbeck once said “ ...

Part two of term paper
... Steinbeck begins his narrative with a very detailed physical description of Elisa. She is a thirty-five year old women living in Selemas Valley in central California (304). She has a “lean and strong”(304) face. Elisa’s eyes are “as clean as water” (304). Her figure appears “blocked and heavy in her gardening costume” (304). She had on a pair of “clodhopper shoes” and a “man’s black hat pulled down ...