"This is the story of Danny and of Danny's friends and of Danny's house. It is a story of how these three became one thing, so that in Tortilla Flat if you speak of Danny's house you do not mean a structure of wood flaked with old whitewash, overgrown with an ancient untrimmed rose of Castile....For Danny's house was not unlike the Round Table, and Danny's friends were not unlike the knights of it."
(see? First lines are important. They are deliberate. Clearly we are meant to read this with an Arthurian lens. is the candlestick supposed to be the Grail, then?)
Last:
"The people of the flat melted into the darkness. Danny's friends still stood looking at the smoking ruin. They looked at one another strangely and then back to the burned house. And after a while they turned and walked slowly away, and no two walked together."
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