Zusammenfassung der Ressource
How does Steinbeck use details in this passage to present the bunkhouse and its
inhabitants?
- Introduction
- Paragraph 1
- Narrators Imagery to depict
lifestyle
- nailed an apple box with the opening forward so that it
made two shelves for the personal belongings of the
occupant of the bunk
- They have little to nothing
- Poverty
- Lonliness
- How the impersonal, harsh – almost formal – nature of
the bunkhouse is created, e.g. ‘rectangular’, ‘square’,
‘straight up’, ‘boxes’
- Paragraph 2
- Lack of privacy
- Against the walls were eight
bunks
- Lowly status of the workers
- Status
- Paragraph 3
- Lack of concern for living standards
- ‘Say. What the hell’s this?
- Geroge's outburst at lice
- Status
- Paragraph 4
- The need to escape
- Western
magazines ranch men love to read and scoff at and secretly believe
- Dreams are essentially an escape mechanism
- Dreams
- Conclusion