Of Mice and Men

Of Mice and Men’, a novel by John Steinbeck, tells a story of friendship, loneliness and aspirations. Two itinerants named George and Lennie go to work on a farm as labourers in a place named Soledad. The story then ends when George takes Lennie’s life. Almost everyone on the farm is lonely and the person…

First published in 1937, Of Mice and Men is a classic American novel by John Steinbeck. George and Lennie are two ranch hands that travel together, with George watching over the mentally inferior Lennie. When they start work at a new ranch, several different characters are introduced. One affliction that seems to face several characters…

This novella is about two friends that faced a lot of challenges of the world that revolves around them. In this short novella, the author Steinbeck use foreshadowing to give the reader clues or hints about what’s coming up in the story. Steinbeck uses foreshadowing with the event of Curley picking on Lennie, the death/killing…

Clinging together in the face of loneliness and alienation, George and Lennie desperately seek to escape their poverty, and strive to transform their chimerical dream into a reality. This heartfelt dream is what sets George and Lennie aside from the other men, yet ironically it is so easily shattered. Throughout the book Of Mice and…

They exclude people who do not fit their norm, such as Curley for being short, Lennie for being retarded, Candy for being old, Crooks for being black, and Curley’s wife for being a woman. Between themselves, they expect strength, distance and independence, and are uncomfortable with emotions. This intolerance and isolation cause loneliness for all…

Have you ever been alone walking or lying on your bed thinking about how lonely you are? Do you ever wonder why you are sometimes ostracized from the group? You can experience loneliness, mentally or physically. It can also drive you out of your mind. In John Steinbecks, Of Mice and Men, Crooks, Candy, and…

Born in Salinas, Calif. in 1902. Worked as a laborer and journalist. Focused on the laboring class, dispossessed, underdogs, misfits, castaways, and marginal characters of society what to do with them? Concerned with how society treats them. Title is from Robert Burns’ poem “To a Mouse” which has to do with planning and the powers…

The novella Of Mice and Men written by John Steinbeck takes place in Soledad, California around the time of the Great Depression. George Milton and Lennie Small are two farm workers who move from place to place in order to find employment. In the novella, John Steinbeck often uses foreshadowing to hint at future events…

In Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck almost all of the characters are ranch hands and they are solitary wanderers. They live very lonely, solitary lives, drifting from one ranch to another. They dont make many friends and they dont make much money. There are three characters on the ranch who are the lonliest…

The characters that reflect the idea of the primary theme of the novel Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck are Candy and Curley. The novel’s primary theme is described as the negative effects of loneliness and being an outcast in society. The reason Candy fits into this category is because John Steinbeck describes him…