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  • A Reading of Steinbeck's Cannery Row
  • スタインベックの「キャナリー・ロー」を読む
  • スタインベック ノ キャナリー ロー オ ヨム

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Although Cannery Row is worth reading to provide a context for a discussion of one of the characteristics, "Non-teleological thinking and breaking through," in Steinbeck's fiction, "relatively little has been," as Jackson J. Benson points out in his critical essay, "written about it—two major articles, a handful of notes, and another half dozen or so chapters or parts of chapters in critical books." Thanks to this essay of Benson's, however, we are now in a good position to delve into the novel in more detail. My main concern, in this paper, is to discuss how "Non-teleologi-cal thinking and breaking through" functions in Cannery Row. Doc, the protagonist in this novel, is a "non-teleological" hero, and through his "peep hole," or his biological and ecological perspective, the ecology of Cannery Row is introduced to\nthe reader. It is well contrasted to that of the Great Tide Pool at the tip of the Monterey Peninsula. Doc's taking a glance at the dead body of a girl in the tide pool at La Jolla near San Diego is, I propose, the climax in this novel, and it is here that he "breaks through" to an understanding that he himself is a part of the whole. This interpretation will help us to understand the meaning of Doc's poetry reading at his second birthday party and at the very end of the novel.

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