Of Mice and Men took place in several different places in California. After fleeing Weed, California, Lennie and George trave up the Salinas River until arriving on a farm in Soledad, California. Their adventures all take place in the 1930’s. The time period does have significance to the plot of the story, because during this time the agriculture business was booming and many people and their families were traveling across states and countries to find work. Most people looking for work ended up working in factories or doing back breaking work in fields due to The Great Depression.
George and Lennie were lifelong friends and had varying personalities even from the start. Lennie thought about how his Aunt Clara said he should have been more like George. At the time when the story took place, the two men were travelling together, and had been for some time, working and then moving on to search for the next job they could find. They were like many other men in search for work, except it was rare for men to travel together. George felt a need to take care of Lennie because he was somewhat slow. George was an average man of the time. He was a good size, nice, but firm, and he had aspirations to be more than just a nomadic laborer. Lennie, on the other hand, had always been a little different. He was big, goofy, clumsy, but sweet. They were also both good workers. George was concerned with working and getting his money before they got into trouble and had to leave camp. Lennie was the one who normally started the trouble. He was a hard worker and lived to appease George, but he got distracted easily which angered George. George told about how they would own a house and a farm together and work for themselves. Lennie loved to hear the story and think about the possibilities, even though nobody knew if any of it was a possibility. George and Lennie's differences in part led to George's inclination to kill Lennie. Despite their dissimilarity, the two men needed each other probably more than they realized.
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John Steinbeck's agricultural upbringing in the California area vibrantly shines through in the settings and story lines of the majority of his works. Steinbeck's novel, Of Mice and Men, takes place in the Salinas Valley of California. The drama is centered around two itinerant farm workers, George Milton and Lennie Small, with a dream of someday owning a place of their own. Lennie Small is a simple-minded, slow moving, shapeless hulk with pale eyes whose enormous physical strength often causes him to get into trouble. George Milton on the other hand is small in stature, clever, dark of face and eyes, and acts as Lennie's guardian and calming force.
Of Mice and Men takes place in the 1930's of America during the Great Depression. The American dream vanished, and the ideal land became the land of misfortune. The Great Depression was a massive global economic recession that led to numerous bank failures, high-unemployment, as well as dramatic drops in GDP, industrial production, stock market share prices and v...
‘Of Mice and Men’ was written by John Steinbeck and published in 1937. The story is based on migrant workers in California during the time of the Great Depression. The Great Depression was caused by the Wall Street Crash in America which effected many business and banks many of which became bankrupt. This resulted in mass unemployment, inflation and economic migration from the city to the countryside. Steinbeck wrote this novel to show what life was like for low-paid, poor workers and to show how the Great Depression effected American people. He represents what life was like for many unprivileged people in 1930s America: migrant workers, women and black Americans.
One of the tasks of being a historical fiction author is making sure you portray the era one is writing about efficiently and correctly. This is especially true for a book as popular as Of Mice and Men. The era John Steinbeck tackled in Of Mice and Men is the 1930s, or the Great Depression. One of the types of people Steinbeck depicts is the migrant laborer group. John
Setting plays a key role in Of Mice and Men, placing the reader in California during the Great Depression. During the Great Depression, jobs rarely popped up, and they quickly filled at the first opportunity. Therefore, it is hard for George and Lennie to land a job, and especially devastating when they get canned. Also, the pay does not allow enough money for George and Lennie to buy the ranch. While they keep trying to save money, they still lack enough to pay to buy the ranch. George and Lennie already lack income that others already received, and the Great Depression made it worse. “The prosperity of the 1920’s was unevenly distributed among the various parts of the American Economy-farmers and unskilled workers were notably excluded.” (Parenthetical Citation) A large amount of migrant workers came to California during this time to find a job, encountering trouble. “These workers were fleeing the ecological disaster of the dust bowl.” (Standing 67) Because of the influx of workers from the Midwest, California’s job market became stagnant; just as terrible as the places workers came from, which deviates from the haven that workers saw the state as. Finally, Lennie and George being on the ranch and not having their own land takes its toll. If they lived alone on their own land, they would need to do much less work and would have to deal with the troubles from Curley and the others on the ranch. Living i...
Of Mice and Men is a novella written by author John Steinbeck in 1937. In the story, Lennie Small and George Milton are migrant workers during the Great Depression, trying to find work. Lennie is a mentally unstable yet a delicate, large man; while George is a small and quick man that takes care of Lennie. They have recently escaped from a different ranch in Weed, where Lennie was accused of rape. Now they are depending on work at a ranch in Salinas Valley, California — a few miles south of Soledad. As Lennie and George approach the ranch, the first person they encounter is Candy. Candy is an old man who tells them that the Boss was looking forward to them the night before; so that they could work that morning. Curley’s wife, Curley is the
The daily struggle of the working class, fear of loneliness and the reality of putting all your energy into plans that fail are the different themes relating to John Steinbeck's novel, "Of Mice and Men". The characters depicted by the author are individuals who are constantly facing one obstacle after another. The book illustrates different conflicts such as man versus society, man versus man, man versus himself and idealism versus reality. The book's backdrop is set in the Salinas, California during the depression. The two main characters include two men, George and Lennie. Supportive characters include a few ranch hands, Candy, Crooks, Curly, Slim and Carlson.
6th Period Choices and Regret By Isreal Yancey Have you ever made a choice in life that made you regret it? Did fate made a cruel turn of events in your life before? Can you fix a bad choice that isn’t permanent? Choices in the Mice and Men by John Steinbeck had some cruel decisions for these characters by fate or themselves. Life and fate the three characters of Curley’s wife, Candy/Carlson, and George are the characters I’m going to discuss in this essay.Curley’s wife made some tough decisions in her life and she isn’t too happy with those decisions. Marrying moving with Curley was the first decision that she made because she had no one else she could find for money in the and she had no job. In the 1930s the only way women can make money
Of Mice and Men is a novel written by John Steinbeck. It is set in California during the great depression. The story follows two ranch hands who travel together and are very poor. Throughout the novel we witness many different philosophical references. Many different types of characters from this novel are reused in today’s society. Steinbeck also writes eloquently about the many different emotions, aspirations, and dreams of man.
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The psychological approach views literature through the lens of psychology. There are multiple approaches to the psychological aspect of literature but the two most recognized are the Freudian and Jungian approach. The best approach to use when critically analyzing the novel Of Mice and Men, written by John Steinbeck, is the Jungian approach. Because the novel’s main theme is a struggle with the idea of “self”, using this approach allows the reader to understand the main character, its influences, and ultimately his actions.
The theme that John Steinbeck amits from the novel Of Mice and Men is not everyone’s american dream can come true because one wants it to. This alludes to a famous poem by Robert Burns called “To a Mouse”. The theme of this poem is the greatest schemes of mice and men often go astray. Meaning that things do not always go as one plans it to. The novel is set in the Great Depression (1929-1939) in Southern California (near Soledad). Characters in the novel such as George and Crooks have obstacles that hold them back from achieving their own american dreams. George is held back from his by having to care of Lennie, who cannot take care of himself. Crooks is held back from his american dream because of his skin color.
The overall setting of Of Mice and Men is a farm in California; however, this novel has four major settings. These include the clearing by the pond, the bunkhouse, Crook’s room, and the barn. Each is important in its own unique way. The clearing by the pond is important because it is the place where George and Lennie meet when Lennie is in trouble. The Bunkhouse is important because it is where all the men live and where they entertain themselves. Their lives are very plain and they are all very lonely. All of the details about the bunkhouse describe to the reader the lifestyle of the characters and provides a view of what they have to live with. For example, “Inside, the walls were whitewashed and the floor unpainted.” Crook’s room is where we learn the inner lives of Crooks, Lennie, Curley’s wife, and Candy. This part of the novel sheds a light on the life of Crooks. It shows that he is a man of learning because he has all of these books and magazines lying around the floor and his bed. These four major sett...