the colour yellow used to describe the sands is another way Steinbeck uses diction to describe the setting as a very ideal place with riches in it, coupled with the fact that the foothills are gold.
Steinbeck shows a wonderful environment with many creatures, However, these creatures are also shown by him to be very passive as they …show more content…
this might show that he trying to create parallels using the setting for contrast.
IN CHAPTER 6the deep green pool is still in the late afternoon but, Steinbeck starts using diction as in “the sun had already left the valley and colours like rosy”, slowly change the readers perception, the fact that the sun had left reminds the reader that Lennie has left after killing wife, we know this as just after this he uses rosy the colour used to describe Curleys wife, so the phrases the sun had left coupled with rosy, show us that Steinbeck has used this to allude to Curleys wife’s death in the last