That is because there is no specific character development or purpose or use of the character. His purpose and use is to be the evil that would get beaten by the main character, in this case Beowulf.
Steinbeck uses the word choice to help add details to his tone of the article. He feels that migrant workers are often overlooked for the work that they do. By adding word choices such as ...(find your own examples of the word choice)... Steinbeck is able to convince the reader to feel a certain way about these migrant workers and add to his original point. Don't copy exactly what I said please, but hope that makes sense ;)
No because of HAVE it should be has