![]() ![]() ![]() The protagonist in the story is Pepe, whom his mother refers to as nothing more than a “lazy peanut.” Apparently Pepe has spent his entire life in indolent ease, basking in the warm sunshine on his mother’s small farm in California. It is a carefully constructed coming-of-age tale that chronicles a 19-year-old boy’s ascent to manhood, quick regression to hunted animal, and thence to his “manly” and untimely death. ![]() John Steinbeck‘s “Flight” first appeared in his collection of short stories The Long Valley in 1938.
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