Stereotypes In John Steinbeck's Cannery Row

In Cannery Row (1945), author John Steinbeck captures the spirit of Monterey, a city in California with a variety of inhabitants, through an abundance amount of characters and frame stories. In his novel, Steinbeck, through society’s eyes, stereotypes characters, Mack and the boys in particular. Despite the fact that he includes society’s perception of Mack and the boys, Steinbeck also incorporates his own distinct attitude towards Mack and the boys. In his novel, Steinbeck does his best to preserve the beauty that he sees in Mack and the boys. Granted that Steinbeck uses specific word choices and writing elements to depict that Mack and the boys are completely distinct from the everyday, corrupted man, correlates with his perception