Plot and Character Analysis of "Cannery Row"
Plot and Character Analysis of "Cannery Row"
In the book Cannery Row who is written by John Steinbeck we get a glimpse of a strange idler community by the California-coast and it’s working, shy, but happy inhabitants who we learn to know. In the book there are strange things happening, fighting’s and funny expedition. Everything in Steinbeck’s humanity and humor.
John Steinbeck is an American writer who was awarded the 1962 Nobel Prize in literature. His characters are often trapped in an unfair world, they remain sympathetic and heroic if defeated, human beings. He is describing very well and with a lot of humor. We are laughing with Steinbeck in his writing. Steinbeck shows us some problems living in a little gate in a little town around 1940.
Cannery Row in Monterey in California is the place where everything in the book is taking place. We are visiting people there in their homes and experience how they live. The place has not been rearmament for some years. There are things there which not are really good-looking like Whore houses, small groceries, honky-tonks, restaurants and tin, iron and rust. Here are all kind of people living, mostly poor ones, but some rich driving through this part of the town, but they are just hurrying into their office and into their cars again. And when they disappear the bums are coming back and Cannery Row is falling down to its normal again. With beer drinking bums who is sitting on the rusty pipes in the vacant lot. The girls from the whore-houses are looking out, and life goes on in Cannery Row.
Some characters in the book:
Lee Chong: - A round faced and courteous man who spoke a strately English without using the letter R. He is a business man and does transactions that everyone else would believe were doomed. Everybody likes him and he gives credit in his store to everyone, but not if they have a lot. Therefore everybody in Cannery Row owes him money.
Horace Abbeville: - Owner of what became the Palace Flophouse.
Mack: - Elder, leader, mentor of a group of men who spend most of their time talking and drinking. Have ideas
and he and his group protect a building by living in it.
Hazel: - He is a strong 26 year old man.
Eddie: - An understudy bartender at La Ida.
Old Chinaman: - He makes a daily walk to the sea, and have...