That being said, there are a lot of very depressing points in this book that are brushed over very quickly but they are definitely there are multiple background characters commit suicide. So there is that battle with feeling isolated, and with trying to come back to the community afterwards. So many people will try to describe this as like a utopian book where he talks about the fact that being well-off does not necessarily guarantee happiness as much as finding a community will.Īnd I think in part that is true, because like I said all of the characters throughout this story struggle with a point at which they feel more isolated and more ostracised than the rest of the time. The characters are all delightfully quirky, kind-hearted, warm,and they all have this sort of tight-knit community that they find in the midst of their isolation from everywhere else, and in the midst of their poverty and their struggles. Because he writes about these people who are very poor, who are struggling very much, but he writes about them with this warm-hearted grace that I have already mentioned.
There are a few sort of debates that people have about what Steinbeck might have made his point about this.
The rest of the world is moving on and starting to recover from the depression but Cannery Row has very much been left behind. So the people there are already isolated, in that they are poor, they are still stuck trying to find work and find money to keep living.
The book is set just after the time of the Great Depression, about a street that is still very much in the throes of that depression period. The book actually describes the main characters as a colorful blend of misfits, which I think is absolutely perfect in describing the characters in the book, and the main struggles that they all contend with at some point throughout the book, which is definitely the concept of isolation.įirst up, the setting of this book is already quite isolated in and of itself. The main thing that I picked up on in this book, is the concept of the theme of social isolation and ostracism.
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