![]() In Cannery Row, Steinbeck brings us a set of characters who the world at large considers as "failures". And if we find the world cold, uncaring, and unfeeling, there is no one to blame for it but ourselves. The present status of the world is a direct product of our way of thinking. I can vouch for that also through my personal experience. Often society tends to think comparatively low of those good than those successful. This is something I've often pondered on, just like Doc in Cannery Row. ![]() And while men admire the quality of the first they love the produce of the second.” And those traits we detest, sharpness, greed, acquisitiveness, meanness, egotism, and self-interest, are the traits of success. “It has always seemed strange to me.The things we admire in men, kindness and generosity, openness, honesty, understanding, and feeling, are the concomitants of failure in our system. ![]()
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