5/11/2023 0 Comments Tortilla flat book review![]() For Danny’s house was not unlike the Round Table, and Danny’s friends were not unlike the knights of it. No, when you speak of Danny’s house you are understood to mean a unit of which the parts are men, from which came sweetness and joy, philanthropy and, in the end, a mystic sorrow. It is a story of how these three became one thing, so that in Tortilla Flat if you speak of Danny’s house you do not mean a structure of wood flaked with old whitewash, overgrown with an ancient untrimmed rose of Castile. This is the story of Danny and of Danny’s friends and of Danny’s house. ![]() ![]() I give you the first paragraph of his Preface: Perhaps I am just being lazy, but I do think that Steinbeck himself can tell you best what the book undertakes. Tortilla Flat is set in the neighborhood by that name in post-WWI Monterey, California, and involves a group of paisano friends. ![]()
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