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''Cannery Row'' is a 1945 novel by [[ |
''Cannery Row'' is a 1945 novel by [[John Steinbeck]]. |
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The central premise is simple enough: in Monterey, California's Cannery Row neighborhood during [[The Great Depression]], a group of men decide to throw a party for their friend Doc, a marine biologist who has a laboratory in the neighborhood. Interspersed within the story are little vignettes about the inhabitants of Cannery Row and the surrounding neighborhoods. |
The central premise is simple enough: in Monterey, California's Cannery Row neighborhood during [[The Great Depression]], a group of men decide to throw a party for their friend Doc, a marine biologist who has a laboratory in the neighborhood. Interspersed within the story are little vignettes about the inhabitants of Cannery Row and the surrounding neighborhoods. |
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* [[Miss Kitty]]: Dora Flood, the madam who runs the Bear Flag Restaurant. Her sister Fauna takes over the Bear Flag in ''Sweet Thursday''. |
* [[Miss Kitty]]: Dora Flood, the madam who runs the Bear Flag Restaurant. Her sister Fauna takes over the Bear Flag in ''Sweet Thursday''. |
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* [[Scenery Porn]]: And how! Steinbeck's descriptions of the Row, the forests, and the tide pools are the literary epitome of this trope. You can almost smell the fishy odor of the canneries. |
* [[Scenery Porn]]: And how! Steinbeck's descriptions of the Row, the forests, and the tide pools are the literary epitome of this trope. You can almost smell the fishy odor of the canneries. |
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* [[What Happened to the Mouse?]]: {{spoiler|The dead girl that Doc finds in the tide pool}} is never mentioned again. Presumably, the man that Doc met on the beach reported {{spoiler|the body}} to the police, but we never find out who she was or how she got out there. |
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** And don't forget the Mysterious Chinaman. |
** And don't forget the Mysterious Chinaman. |
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* [[Write Who You Know]]: The Cannery Row of the book is a thinly-veiled version of Monterey's Ocean View neighborhood. Doc is essentially an [[Expy]] of Steinbeck's friend Ed Ricketts, and Western Biological is a stand-in for Ricketts' Pacific Biological Laboratories. |
* [[Write Who You Know]]: The Cannery Row of the book is a thinly-veiled version of Monterey's Ocean View neighborhood. Doc is essentially an [[Expy]] of Steinbeck's friend Ed Ricketts, and Western Biological is a stand-in for Ricketts' Pacific Biological Laboratories. |
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