... no central plot, Steinbeck focused on the setting to carry the reader through the book. The fixture that was a major contrast to the rest of the book was in the early morning in Cannery Row. This was the time of day when everything seemed to have a touch of magic. The whole district looked as if it had a hue of silver upon it. "It [was] the hour of the pearl "the interval between day ... and night when time [stopped] and examined itself."" (Steinbeck ... their failed efforts to truly create order in Monterey, these outcasts were always able to remember who they were. One of John Steinb...

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