uman (Meyer 29).
             "Good is identified both with admirable individual qualities (philanthropy, kindness, generosity, self respect, courage, creativity) and with conventional moral goodness. Evil is identified with ignoble individual qualities, with criminal acts, and with carnal pleasures, particularly sex acts: and not only with prostitution and perversions, but also with sexual satisfaction in general" (Fontenrose 375).
             The Pearl is a lyrical tale which Steinbeck calls these types of tales black and white story like a parable. "It is a parable about the search for happiness and the nature of man's need to choose between the inherently benign natural life the frantic self-oriented modern world (Astro 63). The very concern with material things with technology is for the most part unnecessary to mere biological survival. It is man's nature to want material things and still not satisfied (Metzger 45). Just as man's existence is an accident so is the pearl and that existence has meaning within human relationships basic of which is the family. Just as the pearl is good it eventu
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