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A review by angelikinika
Cannery Row by John Steinbeck
4.0
When I first started reading Steinbeck's books and I told someone about it they told me that it was surprising how I liked such a "manly" and "strong male power" author. But Steinbeck has such a human and simple approach to his characters that I feel reading his books makes me acknowledge a past that did exist and real people who did suffer - from toxic masculinity or not - (but for sure) from a toxic society. The first quote below says it all...
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“They might call him a watchman but he was a pimp—a dirty pimp, the lowest thing in the world. And then he thought how he had a right to live and be happy just like anyone else, by God he had.”
“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. And those traits we detest, sharpness, greed, acquisitiveness, meanness, egotism and self-interest, are the traits of success. And while men admire the quality of the first they love the produce of the second.”
“It’s all fine to say, “Time will heal everything, this too shall pass away. People will forget”—and things like that when you are not involved, but when you are there is no passage of time, people do not forget and you are in the middle of something that does not change.”
“He never forgot anything but he never bothered to arrange his memories.”
“Who wants to be good if he has to be hungry too?”
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“They might call him a watchman but he was a pimp—a dirty pimp, the lowest thing in the world. And then he thought how he had a right to live and be happy just like anyone else, by God he had.”
“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. And those traits we detest, sharpness, greed, acquisitiveness, meanness, egotism and self-interest, are the traits of success. And while men admire the quality of the first they love the produce of the second.”
“It’s all fine to say, “Time will heal everything, this too shall pass away. People will forget”—and things like that when you are not involved, but when you are there is no passage of time, people do not forget and you are in the middle of something that does not change.”
“He never forgot anything but he never bothered to arrange his memories.”
“Who wants to be good if he has to be hungry too?”