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The first lady I will explain is Dora. She has flaming orange hair and always wears green evening dresses. Dora owns a place called the Bear Flag Restaurant. It is a whore house. Dora gives money to the Chamber of Commerce, Red Cross, Boy Scouts, Community Chest and Police Department, so she can keep her illegal business open. She has a soft heart and gives the poor people of Cannery Row a meal or two, if they need it. Next there is an old Chinaman. Some think he is a God and some think he is death and comes to get the dead at night. All the people of Cannery Row are scared of him except a little 10 years old named Andy. Andy was there visiting family and didn't know all the rumors of him. Andy would watch the old Chinaman come in and out of the water each night. One night he decided to approach the old man. The old Chinaman talked to the little boy for about two hours and then returned to the water. No one ever heard what they talked about. There was something strange about him, he had one brown eye and one green eye. Then there is Mack and the boys. Mack is the main leader of this group. He is a drunk and lives in an old vacant building, he conned from the town grocer. Eddie is an understudy bartender. He fills in at the local b