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Cannery Row 1 Chapter 1 While setting up the foundation of the story in chapter one of Cannery Row, John Steinbeck uses a palette of adjectives to describe the small little town located in California. We are first told of the local Grocery, Lee Chong’s Grocery, in which the chapter’s events take place. Owned by Lee, the store is properly owned and ran on part trust with the locals, as most are in debt to Lee; however, Lee does not use this to take advantage of the locals, as he is a generous and humble man. Beyond Lee, he tells of Horace Abbeville, a local whom had built up quite a debt at the grocery to feed his two wives and six children. While Horace was never hassled by Lee for payment, he would “hate to have my kids with that [payment] hanging cannery, row, lee, shack, horace, grocery, debt, local, while, trade, take, store, steinbeck, place, owned, out, old, mack, locals, lee’s, chapter, agreed, after, works, wives, whom, watch, vandalize, upkeep, two, trust, town, told, tells, surprise, story, stop, stealing