How is germ theory different from previous theories of disease?

Read these sentences from edgar allan poe's "the angel of the odd": it was a chilly november afternoon. i had just consummated an unusually hearty dinner, of which the dyspeptic truffe formed not the least important item, and was sitting alone in the dining-room with my feet upon the fender and at my elbow a small table which i had rolled up to the fire, … which element of this text suggests the events happened long ago? details about a fire descriptions of the furniture use of first-person narrator word choice and word order

What details of the first two paragraphs convey a sense of the ordinary,behind the scenes routines of film critics?

According to the study what did john steinbeck do to prepare for his book the grapes of wrath