!!''Cannery Row'' features examples of:
* EveryoneIsJesusInPurgatory: One interpretation of Doc's aversion to getting his head wet, is to draw a parallel to an aversion to baptism.
* TearJerker: Frankie's story.
** Along with the first party, Mack's apology, the second party, and pretty much the whole book.
** The dead girl Doc finds floating in the water at the beach.
* ValuesDissonance: Doc threatens to punch a hitchhiker who complained that Doc was going to drive under the influence of alcohol.
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