
Overcome with joy, Jody hurriedly agrees to all of the rules and restrictions his father lists along with ownership of the animal, including feeding it and caring for its stall. The Red Pony begins when Carl Tiflin gifts his son Jody a red pony. The novel, like many of Steinbeck’s, relies primarily on a depth and uniqueness of characterization to render realistic profiles of the rich annals of American culture and subjectivity. The novel involves several secondary characters who pass through his life, including the ranch hand Billy Buck, Tiflin’s Oregon Trail-crossing grandfather, and an old man named Gitano who wants to die at the ranch. The stories within involve a boy named Jody Tiflin, who lives with his father on a ranch in California. Originally a series of magazine columns, it was published in four parts between 19.

The Red Pony is a 1937 regional fiction novella by American author John Steinbeck.
