Cannery Row, chapters 17-32

Doc seemed to be absesive with alcohol, especially beer. For instance in the quote that Blaisedell, the poet had said to him," You love beer so much, I'll bet some day you'll go in order a beer milkshake." (103). Another example is chapter 23: page 142, Doc is waving with two fingers in the air and smiled saying, "There's nothing like that first taste of beer." He seems to be over all a calm and "collective" guy except on occations. An example of this is on page 130 where Doc says," Did you do this?"and Mack says, "Well, I and the boys--" Doc's small hard fist whipped out and splashed against Mack's mouth.Doc's eyes shone with a red animal rage." Doc liked to eat and most often hamburgers. For instance, on page 103, the sentence," He didn't drive fast and he stopped and ate hamburgers very often." He has friends, and seems ok, but really he is a lonely guy. For instance: in chapter 17, the first sentence of the chapter, " In spite of his friendliness and his friends Doc was a lonely and a set apart man." " Even in the dear close contact with a girl Mack felt tht Doc would be lonely. Doc was a night crawler."( chapter 17, 4th and 5th sentence in the first paragraph). He also didnt let on that he knew about the party being thrown for Doc. In chapter 27, page 170 " Well," said the drunk, " they're givin' him a hell of a party on his birthday." Doc mulled this over. Another instance is on page 183, He stopped and they stood forlornly on the stairs. " Come on in," said doc. "Why--I'm--I'm surprised. I didn't even know you knew it was my birthday."