John Steinbeck's Cannery Row: An Analysis

During the Great Depression, many citizens faced an arduous lifestyle of unemployment. However, many people managed to entertain themselves by reading literature such as The Grapes of Wrath. John Steinbeck witnessed an injustice towards farmers during the Great Depression, and this inspired Steinbeck to present his perspective of the maltreatment to the open through The Grapes of Wrath. The fictional novel describes how unfortunate conditions, during the Great Depression, force an Oklahoma farmer family to travel to California in search for an easy life, job opportunities, and a bright future. John Steinbeck represented and connected his tones through his trope, making it an excellent read. In the novel, The Grapes of Wrath, John Steinbeck

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.

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.

The 1930’s era was an incredibly tumultuous time for the United States. The stock market crash of 1929 and the Dust Bowl exacerbated the already high tensions between the rich and the poor. These tensions were also present and becoming a growing problem within the justice system of this era. As the country plunged into the depths of the Depression, the poor treatment of men and women imprisoned within the country’s jails deteriorated as well. The Dust Bowl along with the economic conditions the country, at the time led to the disparate treatment of prisoners at this time. Prejudices against certain groups of people during this time were very strong. This prejudice was demonstrated in John Steinbeck’s, The Grapes of Wrath, especially

Plot/Summary: My novel takes place in Monterey, California where Mack and the boys try and to set up a party for doc until things don’t go as planned. Mack, the boys, and a group of unemployed men helping them out. They try and set up the party in Docs lab which is also known as his house. Lee Chong is a grocery store owner and offers to buy Mack and the boys some beer. Mack attempts to do stuff but every time he gets him self in trouble. Eddie is a back up bartender at the local bar and brings home stolen bottles after work. Gay stays with the boys because his wife likes to beat him but he is often in jail or at the bar because of all the fights he gets into with his wife, Doc finds a couple of dead people laying on the

	 John Steinbeck was a famous American author who wrote from the 1920 to the 1940. Steinbeck was constantly moving across the country trying to succeed as a writer. John Steinbeck lived a life of constant up and downs, successes and failures before he landed on his feet and became a famous author.

In the book Cannery Row by John Steinbeck Mack is a very important character to this

The book Cannery Row by John Steinbeck, is about a town that goes through good times and bad times. This book shows that despite your differences, you can work together to make a great community. It also demonstrates that the choices you make have an effect on other people.

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.

Identify one of John Steinbeck’s themes in Grapes of Wrath. Using in-text citations, analyze how three scenes clearly convey this theme.

   When Steinbeck wrote The Grapes of Wrath, our country was just starting to recover from The Great Depression.  The novel he wrote, though fiction, was not an uncommon tale in many lives.  When this book was first published, the majority of those reading it understood where it was coming from-they had lived it.  But now very few people understand the horrors of what went on in that time.  The style in which Steinbeck chose to write The Grapes of Wrath helps get across the book's message.

Another way, Steinbeck shows How Gorge is a true friend to lennie is through how reliable he is to Lennie. An example of this is Lennie was left alone with Curley's wife in the barn and accidently killed her, by him doing this it made all the workers want to kill him. But instead of them killing Lennie George went off and “pulled the trigger. The crash of the shot rolled up the hills and rolled down again, Lennie jarred, and then settled slowly forward to the sand and lay without Quivering,” (106) This quote shows how Gorge is a true reliable friend because A true friend will do whatever they think is good for you. Just like how George went off and killed lennie, so that way he didn’t have to go through even more hell. This shows readers that

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.

Another example of how Steinbeck focuses on the community in this story is when Doc makes a statement about what men admire in their community. These lines are stated in John Steinbeck’s novel and are talking about how the men in their community or area admire kindness and honesty but love self-interest, greed, meanness, or even egotism. This is just an example of how the people in the community are trustworthy and have kind or nice personalities. A personal interview with Michael Hemp on John Steinbeck’s Cannery Row is a very special video that talks about the history of Cannery Row and also the community.

The beginning of Cannery Row, by John Steinbeck, gives/includes a great description for the milieu. After reading the opening chapter it is easy to imagine yourself to the real settings. Story revolves around the very realistic environment of harbour cities in the twentieth century; stinky mixed odour of dead and living fish and rusty metal splinters sprawling all around. So, if you get properly affected by that description, you should nose out the stink of canned fish and feel like you ́re one of those oil clothed Polaks. Canneries made of corrugated iron gets my thoughts to old, wild-western movies.