The Pearl
3. What was one thing the pearl buyers were reluctant to do?
Book: the pearl, author: John Steinbeck
Book: the pearl, author: John Steinbeck
The pearl buyers were reluctant to offer to low a price for the pearls the fishermen brought to sell. They were afraid the fishermen would give their pearls to the church.
"But there was a price below which they dared not go, for it had happened that a fisherman in despair had given his pearls to the church."
The Pearl/ Chapter 3