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"Cannery Row"
Analytical Essay # 19967
"Cannery Row"
An analysis of Doc and his celebration of life's glory and grime in "Cannery Row".
1,125 words (approx. 4.5 pages) |
1 source |
1993
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"This study will examine the characterization of Doc in John Steinbeck's novel Cannery Row. The novel is a celebration of life, including the grime and the glory, and Doc's character is meant to personify this broadly inclusive philosophy. As we read of Cannery Row's people:Its inhabitants are, as the man once said, "whores, pimps. gamblers, and sons of bitches," by which he meant Everybody. Had the man looked through another peephole he might have said, "Saints and angels and martyrs and holy men," and he would have meant the same thing (1).
Doc is a scientific man, to be sure, but he is also a man grounded in the pleasures of everyday life. We first see him leaving his Western Biological Laboratory to buy five quarts of ..."
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""Cannery Row"" 15 January 2012. Web. 10 Feb. 2012. <http://www.academon.com/Analytical-Essay-Cannery-Row/19967>
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