How does Steinbeck use details in this passage to present the bunkhouse and its inhabitants?

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How does Steinbeck use details in this passage to present the bunkhouse and its inhabitants?
  1. Introduction
    1. Paragraph 1
      1. Narrators Imagery to depict lifestyle
        1. nailed an apple box with the opening forward so that it made two shelves for the personal belongings of the occupant of the bunk
          1. They have little to nothing
            1. Poverty
              1. Lonliness
              2. How the impersonal, harsh – almost formal – nature of the bunkhouse is created, e.g. ‘rectangular’, ‘square’, ‘straight up’, ‘boxes’
            2. Paragraph 2
              1. Lack of privacy
                1. Against the walls were eight bunks
                  1. Lowly status of the workers
                    1. Status
              2. Paragraph 3
                1. Lack of concern for living standards
                  1. ‘Say. What the hell’s this?
                    1. Geroge's outburst at lice
                      1. Status
                    2. Paragraph 4
                      1. The need to escape
                        1. Western magazines ranch men love to read and scoff at and secretly believe
                          1. Dreams are essentially an escape mechanism
                            1. Dreams
                          2. Conclusion
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