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. 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.ġ How Danny, home from the wars, found himself an heir, and how he swore to protect the helpless. 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.

Above the town of Monterey on the California coast lies the shabby district of Tortilla Flat, inhabited by a loose gang of jobless locals of Mexican-Indian-Spanish-Caucasian descent (who typically claim pure Spanish blood).

Tortilla flat summary