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takes place in the late 1930's and the early 1940's. The exact location of the book is in a place south of Soledad on a ranch in the Salinas Valley which is in California. You can imagine that during this time there wasn't much to do. In fact Soledad, the place w ....

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.... scene was in the bunkhouse in the ranch where all the workers slept and lived. Steinbeck described the bunkhouse being, " a long, rectangular building. Inside, the walls were whitewashed and the floor unpainted." Later he says, " Against the walls were eight bunks, five of them made up with blankets and the other three showing their burlap ticking." So far we get the idea that the bunkhouse was not the most beautiful place to live in, one of the only forms of entertainment in the bunkhouse was playing cards. Steinbeck described this setting with images of light and darkness next to each other. As Steinbeck said outside there is "evening b ....