Cannery Row (Masterplots II: American Fiction Series, Revised Edition)
At a glance:
- Author: John Steinbeck
- First Published: 1945
- Type of Plot: Sentimental realism
- Time of Work: About 1940
- Setting: “The Row,” a sleepy fishing village near Monterey, California
- Principal Characters: Doc, Mack, Dora Flood, Hazel, Hughie, Jones, Gay, Eddie
- Genres: Long fiction, Character study
- Subjects: North America or North Americans, United States or Americans, Prostitution or prostitutes, Depression, economic, 1930’s, Poverty or poor people, California, West, U.S., Adventure, Pacific Northwest, Fishing or fishermen
- Locales: Monterey, CA
The Novel
Cannery Row is a sentimental, nostalgic portrayal of the lazy, the shiftless, the good-natured lowlifes who survive at the fringes of a fishing and canning community outside Monterey, California. Working only when they must, preferring drinking, fighting, and indolence, “the boys” of Cannery Row are somewhat akin to the old picaresque heroes of the seventeenth and eighteenth century novel. The picaro of these early novels was something of a rogue who lived by his or her wits, and who, despite poverty and social ostracism, displayed a basic goodness and a...
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