Cannery Row (Identities and Issues in Literature)
At a glance:
- Author: John Steinbeck
- First Published: 1945
- 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 Work
In Cannery Row, John Steinbeck depicts the precarious survival of a heterogeneous human community in the cannery section of Monterey, California. In emphasizing alternative values to capitalistic greed as the basis for that survival, Steinbeck implies that the only means by which peaceful amalgamation of diverse economic, cultural, and gender groups can occur is through community.
The diversity of Cannery Row is represented by Lee Chong, the Chinese grocer; by the varied group of European American young men, led by Mack, who maintain the Palace...
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