Cannery Row Summary
John Steinbeck

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Cannery Row Summary

Cannery Row depicts life in a depressed California fishing town, with the story culminating with the owner of a Chinese grocery, ladies in a civic-minded bordello, a household of grown-up delinquents, and assorted other characters coming together to give lonely Doc, owner/operator of a marine research facility, a tremendous birthday party.

Lee Chong owns a general grocery store that extends credit to most of the poor residents of Cannery Row...

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Essays & Analysis (2)

Cannery Row

880 words, approx. 3 pages

The story Cannery Row has a wide variety of characters, but only two people posses a complex personality and ironically each person understands the other. The two complex characters are Doc and Mack.... Read more

Cannery Row, A Review

1,095 words, approx. 4 pages

The passage extracted from Cannery Row by John Steinbeck explores experience of Mack, Jones and Hazel helping the scientist for research by collecting frogs. As they are hunting frogs on a private pro... Read more

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