Steinbeck presents the bunk house as an unhealthy, forgotten prison. ' ...there were small square windows...a solid door with a wooden latch...there was a nailed apple box... it made two shelves for the personal belongings.' The bunk house is a building where all the migrant workers – who work on the ranch- stays. There are eight bunks so that means all those people are living in the same room with only a few small square windows. Steinbeck uses alliteration '...small square windows...' This is to get the reader to focus on that particular section to show how prison-like the bunk house is. In addition to that, we also see how Steinbeck presents the bunkhouse a prison '...a solid door with a wooden latch...' This just only justifies my point
