John Steinbeck, an American author, published in 1945 a novel by the name of Cannery Row. The location of this story is in Monterey, California. The book tells about the lives of the people living a street which is lined with sardine canneries back during the Great Depression. The people this story revolves around are a local grocer Lee Chong, a marine biologist Doc and Mac the leader of a group of derelicts. As you can tell by the title of the novel the street is known by the name of Cannery Row. A line I ponder upon in this text is “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 …show more content…
Does this mean that they are looking at the exact same thing, but just with different perspectives and opinions? Is it so that to some people whores are to be shunned upon while to others they are angels sent by God for their pleasure. Imagine being a local, strolling ahead through a rundown cracked road, first you are looking at the surrounding whorehouses, junk piles, the docks with it’s rusty fishing boats and the same familiar faces which you see everyday. The people, the place and the buildings. The hood you call home. Closing your eyes and opening your ears you hear people chatting by, the squeaking of the fishing boats at the docks grating up against the mouth of the cannery, a loud whistle sounds off and you hear the heavy steps of workers marching in a beeline to their stations. The rattling, the rumbling and the grating. The sounds as sweet as song. Distract yourself from the sound and sniff the air. The dust in the wind causes you to sneeze. Next you pick up a putrid fish stench mixed with salty seaweed and you scrunch up your nose in disgust. No matter how many years you've lived there you’re probably never going to get used to that stench. Afterwards your sense of