“The girl chides the child.” Another sentence is, “She should stop chiding me.” Chide means to scold. I hope this helps!
Answer:
through the tone, use of language, and narrative perspective used
Explanation:
The diction of Steinbeck here in apparently describing the dustbowl conditions of the Dirty Thirties is speaking of "tenant men" or presumably men who were tenant farmers perhaps who were allowed to live on the land in return for working it and that they "scuffed" their way home indicates that the dust was so thick they had to scuff but also perhaps that since they could barely make a living under the poor agricultural conditions they did not walk confidently but scuffed.
