The Red Pony (Cyclopedia of Literary Characters)
At a glance:
- Author: John Steinbeck
- First Published: 1937
- Type of Work: Novella
- Type of Plot: Pastoral
- Time of Work: The early 1900’s
- Setting: Salinas Valley, California
- Genres: Long fiction, Psychological fiction, Bildungsroman, Pastoral
- Subjects: Maturation or coming of age, Children, Family or family life, North America or North Americans, United States or Americans, Twentieth century, Nature, California, West, U.S., Death or dying, Ranches, ranchers, or ranching, Life and death, Horses, Ponies
- Locales: Salinas Valley, CA
Characters Discussed
Jody Tiflin, a young boy (ages ten through twelve over the four stories) growing up on an isolated California ranch. He is a normal kid—dreamy, sometimes irresponsible, and not above childish pranks—who loves the other members of his ranch family and learns something from each of them in the different stories of this novella: practical sense from his father, sensitivity from his mother, courage and caring from ranch hand Billy Buck, and a feeling for the past from his grandfather. Jody is at the center of each story. It is his red pony, Gabilan, that is...
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