Why Is It Called The Bean Trees?

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The idea of “beans” is irrelevantly brought up several times. When Taylor is searching for a room to rent, she interviews a group of hippies who tell her that “…[they] eat mainly soybean products”(78). Soon after, when Taylor and Lou Ann become friends, they make fun of the hippies and call them, “bean turds”(79). The first words Turtle speaks are not the usual “mommy” or “daddy”, but rather when gardening, Taylor shows Turtle beans and tells her what they are, and Turtle repeats the word “bean” but then says “humbean”(108). In a much later chapter, Turtle points out a bean tree that no one has ever seen because they grew on a flowering wisteria plant that looked like, “…wonderful long green pods…as much like beans as anything you’d ever care to eat” (161). There is no obvious relationship between any of these references. The only real relationship is that they are all completely random and surprising.
It is surprising to find beans growing in Arizona. In the ...

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