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Title: Reveals characters' psychology in a paragraph or less...
Review: This book is only around 120 pages but in what would constitute the first act of most novels, Steinbeck fleshes out a wide array of characters with great depth by revealing their psychological innerworkings effectively and efficiently with brief anecdotes. The storytelling is so economical that the layout is almost like a kids' book...but there is an adult depth to everything that makes this a high-value, high-impact 120 pages.In terms of the grand scale, the stakes here aren't terribly high if you look at them with pure objectivity, but the daily life and mindset of the characters is so finely revealed that even the small events that transpire in these pages feel like they carry great weight because you are invested so heavily in the ordinary details of the lives of these ordinary people.
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