John Steinbeck's Cannery Row

The Grapes of Wrath has become one of America’s most popular and influential novel. Throughout the story, Steinbeck's purpose of showing to his audience the struggles people had to go through during the Depression. Steinbeck’s use of rhetorical devices are able to bring in outside information that he learned to make this novel and intertwine it with a story plot that shocked America. Steinbeck shows us his purpose throughout the novel Steinbeck used the devices of juxtaposition, pathos, and a variety of prose styles to emphasize his purpose and to bring the story of a family moving west to life. One technique used to separate the parts of the novel is juxtaposition.

In John Steinbeck’s Cannery Row, Mack and his ravenous companions depart the inhospitable coastal fog of Monterey, California, and head east toward Carmel Valley, searching for sun.

For a nailed surface, Weygers used a door he rescued from a Cannery Row speak-easy. He chose slabs whose curves would fit together. Where they did not, he used a keyhole saw that he built to trim them. Weygers made the hinges for the door with recycled leaf springs rescued from wrecked automobiles. When he hung the door in its frame, Weygers discovered it was so thick it would not open at all. He then used hand-made carving gouges to pare away some of the thickness, and the door swung freely.

In Steinbeck’s Cannery Row, the gopher story parallels the story at the beginning about the silk worm. Steinbeck used the story to portray his approach to writing the book and “let the stories crawl in by themselves”. It sets up the book as the gopher story closes it out. The gopher seems to convey the overall destiny of Cannery Row. They start out in great environments. Even in the prime of the life to achieve the desires. The patience wears thin to and is convince to make a way. Then there is an acceptance of doing what they have to truly be satisfied. Even if it means risking being uncomfortable and trapped, what their hearts desire is worth it. The story ends open ended, leaving the reader unsure of the fate that is ahead.

Cannery Row is a town located in Monterey, California. Despite being small, dirty and crowded, it is a well functioned town and is home to people from different walks of life. In the novel’s prologue, John Steinbeck wrote the following: “Its inhabitants are, as one man once said, ‘whores, pimps, gamblers, and sons of bitches’ by which he meant Everybody” and “[have] the man looked through another peephole he might have said: ‘Saints and angels and martyrs and holy men,’ and he would have meant the same thing” (Steinbeck 1). He basically comments that the difference in viewpoints given the same event results from the power of perspective and duality observed in people. One might see Cannery Row as a low-down place while the others might see Cannery Row as a lively, vigorous town. One would see a character’s actions disputable while the others would see their behaviors admirable. The viewpoints of the readers and the way characters behave at various times explain the fact that Cannery Row and its inhabitants possess qualities crossing good and evil.

Steinbeck has written ''Of Mice And Men '' about an adventure of George and Lennie trying to accomplish their American dream's during the Great Depression during the 1930's where thousands of people lost their jobs in the Wall Street Crash making them feel hopeless. George and Lennie come to work at a ranch near Soledad in California. There they meet fellow ranch mates and a woman called Curley's Wife. In this essay I will focus on how Curley's Wife's personality and actions change throughout the novella and who she affect her and other bunkmates throughout the novella. In addition to that I would be showing how Steinbeck creates tension by using Curleys Wife.

Cannery Row begins with the character Lee Chong, a small grocery owner that supplies the town. Lee was depicted as a kind and generous man, and his good nature was reflected through his appearance and personality. Steinbeck states that “[his] mouth was full and benevolent and the flash of gold when he smiled was rich and warm” (Steinbeck 7). This simple passage gives us a clear first impression of what Lee Chong was like, a man with a

Steinbeck has written ''Of Mice And Men '' about an adventure of George and Lennie trying to accomplish their American dream's during the Great Depression during the 1930's where thousands of people lost their jobs in the Wall Street Crash making them feel hopeless. George and Lennie come to work at a ranch near Soledad in California. There they meet fellow ranch mates and a woman called Curley's Wife. In this essay I will focus on how Curley's Wife's personality and actions change throughout the novella and who she affect her and other bunkmates throughout the novella. In addition to that I would be showing how Steinbeck creates tension by using Curleys Wife.

            In the story Cannery Row Loneliness is a main theme to the characters lives.  One of these themes is Loneliness.  'He was a dark and lonesome looking man' No one loved him.  No one cared about him'(Page 6).  The severity of his solitude makes this theme one of the most important.  The seclusion of this man can penetrate ones innermost thoughts and leave them with a sense of belonging after hearing of this

Human behavior is a function of the environment that he/she is brought up in because it is the environment that shapes the person’s morals. This statement is openly validated in the novel Cannery Row where an inclusive community is built as a result of good morals that have been developed and shaped by the environment. Cannery Row is novel that was published in 1945 by John Steinbeck in Monterey. It was named after a waterfront street in California which had sardine caning factories. According to Grasse et al (75), fellowship and warm-heartedness is all that is required to form a united and successful community. Wealth is important part of one’s life but it should not take away the person’s happiness. Steinbeck in his work uses the characters of the novel to communicate this message in a clear and understandable manner. The name of the novel matches with the actual meaning that the writer wanted to communicate the readers. He used the name to enable the readers to be able to relate the novel’s actual meaning with authentic opinions.

The minor characters in John Steinbeck’s novel Cannery Row are a contradiction within themselves. Steinbeck shows two conflicting sides to each character; for example, Mack is smart and lazy and some of his colleagues are both good and bad. Doc is a father figure with some bad habits. Dora Flood is a kind-hearted saint who happens to run a brothel. Lee Chong is a shrewd businessman who likes to take advantage of others. Henri is an artist with a French background even though he isn’t from France. Through his characters, Steinbeck shows that humans are complicated and can have many faces.

John Steinbeck’s “Cannery Row” shows how people living there dealt with the hardships brought by the Great Depression. Steinbeck set his novel in the 1930’s in Cannery Row, California. The canneries are an integral part of the fish industry and Steinbeck makes the ailing American economy a critical part of everyone’s lives in his novel. He show how different characters, with different points of view with the exact same situation.

Cannery Row is a novel about Steinbeck’s hometown and friends, living their lives. His novel does not follow a conventional narrative structure, but has several seemingly unconnected chapters, themes, and inner chapters. Of the numerous themes in the book, terrible beauty seems to be the most prominent in Cannery Row. There are countless instances of terrible beauty in Cannery Row, but the major ones are Dora and her brothel, and Doc’s studies of the tide pool.

Along with the insight of critical essay, a distinctive stylistic device in the book is Steinbeck’s characterization of different characters like Cathy and Charles as the reader acquires valuable details and explanations of their personalities. For example, Steinbeck characterizes Cathy as a woman “born with the tendencies or lack of them, which drove, and forced her all of her life” (Steinbeck 72). Furthermore, Steinbeck illustrates Cathy having “gold and lovely” (Steinbeck 73) hair and “wide-set hazel eyes” (Steinbeck 73) to draw reader’s attention to her appearance where it “made people uneasy but not so that they wanted to go away” (Steinbeck 73). This specific description of Cathy forces the reader to visualize her appearance where Steinbeck

Steinbeck has an interesting style of writing that pulls his readers in through confusion and curious desire. He has an intriguing way of transitioning from chapter to chapter because of his tendency to start a new story in the middle of telling another one, leaving questions unanswered and storylines untouched until he is ready to reveal the rest of the original story. Constantly, he invents new misfits and finds ways to torture them with failure, fear, loneliness, poverty, and loss. For example, in