Character Transformation In John Steinbeck's The Wayward Bus

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In Steinbeck's The Wayward Bus an interesting short novel. The book about a group of people stuck at a bus station, due to some mechanical trouble with the bus. They found themselves in a lunchroom all waiting for the same bus that will take them to San Juan. They will travel together and face a lot of things during this journey. However, the book about different amazing characters, each one is unique, with an interesting story. Some characters develop throughout the novel. For instance, Norma character developing, Mildred is growing, and Pimple is changing.
Norma developed throughout the novel. She was too shy, and she didn’t know how such things were done. In addition, All her dream in the beginning of the book about the actor Mr. Gable,

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