- a twenty-five year long occupation she believes impoverishes all of them and endangers Alice""s chances:No, I""m not doin"" any hintin"", Virgil, but of course when you get well, you can""t go back to that old hole again.Frank describes how he suffers from her reserved reaction for weeks afterwards in a first-person narration:For a couple of weeks then, she wouldn""t look at me, or say a word to me if she could help it.Numerous other times, Hollywood has capitalized on other Steinbeck works and adapted them for the screen:Of Mice and Men (1939),Tortilla Flat (1942),The Moon is Down (1943),The Pearl (1948),The Red Pony (1949),East of Eden (1955), andCannery Row (1982)." The Baron heartily agreed: "That""s my creed, Kringelein: A short life and a gay one," and he promised to be Kringelein""s friend.One Polish girl, one of many neighboring spectators, screams out at the parade with frightening prejudice and revilement: "Goodbye Jews.