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Vice and Virtue. In Cannery Row, a novel documenting the lives of outcasts and eccentrics, Steinbeck challenges conventional notions of virtue, ultimately arguing that society often champions qualities that don’t necessarily lead to happiness or widespread goodwill.
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by John Steinbeck. Themes and Meanings. PDF Cite Share. For a novel with so slight a plot, Cannery Row is nevertheless engaging as a social document, a record of a state of mind, of...
Major Themes. Loneliness. Cannery Row is filled with a cast of lonely characters, and Steinbeck impresses upon his audience that their loneliness has been caused either by some secret of their past, or because of social ostracism. Cannery Row is ultimately a place filled with lonely, imperfect people who come together and create a community.
Followed by. The Pearl. Cannery Row is a novel by American author John Steinbeck, published in 1945. [1] It is set during the Great Depression in Monterey, California, on a street lined with sardine canneries that is known as Cannery Row.
A concise biography of John Steinbeck plus historical and literary context for Cannery Row.
Themes. The Function of Community. Cannery Row examines how a sense of community develops and functions among the residents of Monterey, focusing on the lower-class and working-class people. One important aspect of this is Steinbeck’s positive depiction of sex workers.
