Cannery Row symbolism of settings

The Palace Flophouse and the old water boiler that the Malloy’s use as their home are both very similar in the ways that they contribute to the theme of the novel and the meanings that they both have to the characters that they are related to. Mac and the Boys are connected to the Flophouse because it is where they make their home in the novel. They do not own it, Lee Chong does and he permits them to live there because they have nowhere else to live and had been living in the pipes in the city and they said that they would take care of it for him. The boys saw the building as a wonderful place an

Lee Chong’s Grocery Store and the Bear Flag Restaurant are two more settings in the story that are connected to each other and contribute to the theme in the same ways. Lee Chong’s Grocery Store is described in the book as “small and crowded but within its single room a man could find everything he needed or wanted to live and to be happy.” Lee Chong and his grocery store had a connection with almost everyone in the story because it had everything that anybody ever needed. It helped keep Cannery Row running and allowed it to survive during the depression and post-depression. The Bear Flag Restaurant is a brothel in Cannery Row run by a large lady named Dora. The brothel was not dirty and bothersome to the area; in fact it was the total opposite. The brothel might be the main reason that some of the people in the Row are still around. During the Depression, Dora was particularly active in helping others, and fed many of the families in the area and helped pay their bills at Lee Chong's. These two settings in the story represent the foundation of Cannery, because with them there Cannery Row would not exist. They both exhibit the

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