![]() ![]() Through Lee Chong, Steinbeck illustrates that people are not always what they appear to be.Īfter Lee Chong, Steinbeck introduces Mack and the boys, “a little group of men who had in common no families, no money, and no ambitions beyond food, drink, and contentment” (9). Though Lee Chong puts on an external front of being profit-driven, his actions show that he ultimately places more value on people than money. It was small and crowded but within its single room a man could find everything he needed or wanted to live and to be happy” (5). Steinbeck writes, though Lee Chong’s Grocery was “not a model of neatness, a miracle of supply. Shortly after the opening of the novel, Steinbeck describes Lee Chong, the owner of Lee Chong’s Grocery. Immediately showing the class distinction that exists within the Row, Steinbeck also notes that “shining cars bring the upper classes down: superintendants, accountants, owners who disappear into offices” (2). Cannery Row opens at daybreak on the Row when “all over the town men and women scramble into their clothes and come running down to the Row to go to work” (1-2). ![]()
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