Cannery Row
Who is Hazel from Cannery Row and what is their importance?
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Hazel is one of "Mack and the boys" who live at the Palace Flophouse and Grill, Hazel is, despite his name, a male. His distraught mother attaches to her eighth child in seven years the name of a great aunt, gets used to it, and keeps it after seeing he is a boy. Neither grammar school nor reform school teaches Hazel anything. Now twenty-six, dark-haired, pleasant, strong, willing, and loyal, Hazel retains everything he hears but understands nothing; his mind is like the snarl of fishing tackle in the bottom of a boat.