When Danny goes out in the afternoon, people come to decorate the house and bring food. Everyone joins in with the preparations and there is great excitement. Word spreads quickly through the town that a party is going to held for Danny, and that everyone is going. To raise the money, they decide that for once in their lives they will get a job for a day, packing squids. The friends decide that what Danny needs is more wine and a party. Pilon gives him the last of the wine, and this seems to stir some life in Danny. Danny seems old and there is no light in his eyes. The friends worry about him and try to draw him out. He doesn't bother to join in the discussions. Steinbeck won the Nobel Prize in 1962 and died in New York in 1968.After his return, Danny lives listlessly with his friends, as if he doesn't care about anything. His travel memoir, Travels with Charley, describes his trek across the U.S. He became interested in marine biology and published a nonfiction book, The Sea of Cortez, in 1941. He also wrote several successful films, including Forgotten Village (1941) and Viva Zapata! (1952). Steinbeck’s work after World War II, including Cannery Row and The Pearl, became more sentimental. The novel, about the struggles of an Oklahoma family who lose their farm and become fruit pickers in California, won a Pulitzer Prize in 1939. Steinbeck’s following works, In Dubious Battle and Of Mice and Men, were both successful and in 1938 his masterpiece The Grapes of Wrath was published. The novel’s endearing comic tone captured the public’s imagination, and the novel became a financial success. Tortilla Flat describes the antics of several drifters who share a house in California. His father, a government official in Salinas, gave the couple a house while Steinbeck continued writing. He married in 1930 and moved back to California with his wife. He moved to New York and worked as a manual laborer and journalist while writing his first two novels, which were not successful. Steinbeck, a native Californian, had studied writing intermittently at Stanford between 19 but never graduated. John Steinbeck’s first successful novel, Tortilla Flat, is published on May 28, 1935.
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