... it was that Mr. Malloy looks to renting the larger pipes as sleeping quarters(48). Some people living on Cannery Row live is pipes as homes. By people living in pipes and boiler shows the suffering of the Great Depression. Steinbeck included strange vignettes that depicted character's getting overwhelmed with depression and stress during the Great Depression, they committed suicide. Abbeville was a warehouse ... the Great Depression, the suicide rate was high. Steinbeck uses the characters to symbolize the suicides of the Great Depression. Jobs were also scarce because of the economic c...

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