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Steinbeck did not espouse a [[politically correct]] view of women.  Steinbeck's prostitutes in ''Cannery Row'', in particular Dora, were highly compassionate women as inspired by nearby Monterey, a town Steinbeck liked better than the Salinas town that was his home.
 
Steinbeck did not espouse a [[politically correct]] view of women.  Steinbeck's prostitutes in ''Cannery Row'', in particular Dora, were highly compassionate women as inspired by nearby Monterey, a town Steinbeck liked better than the Salinas town that was his home.
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Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein based the Broadway musical Pipe Dream on Steinbeck's Cannery Row characters from Sweet Thursday, but transformed Steinbeck’s compassionate prostitute Suzy into a caricature of a mere visiting nurse.  Steinbeck was appalled at this distortion of his work.
    
But in general Steinbeck's women were undeveloped in character compared with the men in his novels.
 
But in general Steinbeck's women were undeveloped in character compared with the men in his novels.
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