George and Lennie's Dream in John Steinbeck's Of Mice and Men

George and Lennie's Dream in John Steinbeck's Of Mice and Men

About the author:

John Steinbeck was born in Salinas Valley on February 27,1902. He

attended Stanford University-June 1919-1925 and he graduated from

Salina High School-June 1919. His father John Ernst Steinbeck was a

country treasurer who died a year before his son wrote the book ' Of

mice and men ' and Steinbeck's mother Olive Hamilton Steinbeck was a

teacher. Steinbeck also written other books like ' The long valley'

and ' Tortillaflat' not just the story about George and Lennie. Then

in 1962 Steinbeck received the ' Nobel prize for literature.' after he

set up a national Steinbeck centre in historic old town at the head of

Main street in Salinas, he then died in New York, December 20,1968.

'Of Mice And Men' is a novel written by John Steinbeck about two men

who have a mission to make their dream come true. George Milton and

Lennie Small are the only ones who can change the way they lived and

if they worked hard for it they would be successful to make their

dream come true.

Lennie Small is quite a large man with a shapeless face, with large

pale eyes, he was wearing denim trousers and in denim a coat with a

black shapeless hat; he maybe big but he is really forgetful and has a

mind of a child.

George Milton is a short man with a dark of a face with restless eyes

and sharp, strong features he too was wearing denim clothes and a

shapeless hat; he was the bossy one and told Lennie what to do because

Lennie didn't have a mind of his own and what he thought was right was

wrong that's why they got chased out of Weed.

At the start of the book Steinbeck describes the place as a dream. 'A

few miles south of Soledad, the Salina River drops in close to the

hillside band and runs deep and green. The water is warm too, for it

has slipped twinkling over the yellow sands in the sunlight before