Descriptive Writing Techniques: Steinbeck vs. Parker
Descriptive Writing Techniques: Steinbeck vs. ParkerThe smell of stale cigarettes and old coffee lingers around the dusty, metal desk in the middle of the converted garage that is now a home office. Calendars and itineraries posted on the walls ages ago, now outdated and insignificant, fight the stacks of paper that are piled high around the room to collect as much dust as possible. In the far right hand corner of the room lay boxes of two year old phone books that were at one time gathered to be taken to the recycling center by my younger brother's cub scout troop. Now they have become a catchall, where overcoats are placed for the time being and bibles are stacked waiting for next Sunday to roll around. The two sliding glass doors that occupy the opening of the original garage, are filthy with dirty fingerprints that catch the light of the late afternoon sun as is shines through them towards my dimly lit computer screen. Closing the blinds over the sliding doors helps with the light and I can now see the word processing progr!am on the monitor; but the change in light allows for another image to appear on the screen. It is my inquisitive and thoughtful face that now reflects back towards me. I resist the pressure of the keyb
Later on Midge and Annabel play a game that requires them to both declare what they would do if they had a million dollars. In his short story, "The Chrysanthemums," Steinbeck projects a mood of cold and loneliness when he writes; "The high grey-fannel fog of winter closed off the Salinas Valley from the sky and from all the rest of the world. So I begin the task by stretching my arms and popping my joints and I lay my fingertips onto the keyboard; and I begin to type my paper, l-e-t-t-e-r-b-y-l-e-t-t-e-r. I could almost see Midge's eyes roll in her head as she proudly declared that she wouldn't do any such thing. Steinbeck also has a good sense of writing people; however, I have found Dorothy Parker to be my favorite as far as human characteristics are concerned. She seems to have a natural gift for the wit of human nature. In another passage, Steinbeck writes of the human side of life in the Salinas Valley; "It was a time of quiet and waiting. "She went on, with perhaps a slight loss of head, to declare that she herself wouldn't be caught dead in a silver fox"(Guth 304). In her short work titled "The Standard of Living," describes the lives of two friends living in New York. Dorothy Parker's style of writing differs from Steinbeck's in a slight way.
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