Morales next door, pays no attention.Ħ How three sinful men, through contrition, attained peace. Francis, burns down the house, while Danny, who is with Mrs. Jesus Maria is beaten up by soldiers because he enjoys their whiskey and their girlfriend Arabella. Pablo enjoys dinner, firewood and love from Mrs. Pilon and Pablo enjoy two gallons of wine. Since he has just $3 and a dime with him, they take a $2 deposit and leave him the rest to buy a woman he likes a present.ĥ How Saint Francis turned the tide and put a gentle punishment on Pilon and Pablo and Jesus Maria. 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. Chapter summaryġ How Danny, home from the wars, found himself an heir, and how he swore to protect the helpless. The following chapter titles from the work, along with short summaries, outline the adventures the dipsomaniacal group endure in order to procure red wine and friendship. Most of the action is set in the time of Steinbeck's own late teenage and young adult years, shortly after World War I. Danny's house, and Danny's friends, Steinbeck compares to the Round Table, and the Knights of the Round Table. The central character Danny inherits two houses from his grandfather where he and his friends go to live.
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