John Steinbeck's Of Mice And Men

John Steinbeck's Of Mice And Men

In the novel of, "Of Mice and Men," the setting of the story starts

out when both George and Lennie arrive at a pool of the Salinas River

in California. Both of them ran away from Weed, their previous

location since Lennie made a terrible mistake. George and Lennie are

totally different from one another in every aspect. Lennie tends to

act like a demanding child, while on the other hand; George harasses

him and is a very impatient father. Before entering the ranch, George

had warned Lennie to keep his mouth shut at all times. When they

arrive at the ranch, they start off my meeting Candy, the handyman.

Afterwards, George seems to be suspicious with the warm welcome that

Candy gives. Next, the boss comes in, and is very aggressive, and does

not like George speaking for Lennie, but George stays cynical towards

the boss's questions. After that Curly, the boss's son arrives, and a

dislike is shown towards Lennie, however George warned Curly not mess

with Lennie. Then other characters one by one, were introduced to

Lennie and George, and after meeting the characters George felt

restless because he was worried incase Lennie made another silly

mistake.

In chapter three, two important events took place, the first one being

the shooting of Candy's dog. It all started when Carlson said, "Meant

to ask you, Slim - how's your bitch? I seen she wasn't under your

wagon this morning." As the conversation went on, Carlson said

thoughtfully, "Well looka here, Slim. I been thinkin'. That dog of

Candy's is so god-damn old he can't walk. Stinks like hell,

too…Why'n't you get Candy to shoot his old dog and give...

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mean it works out for the time period, which makes it realistic. Even

some of the words that were used are quite confusing and you have to

think about what they actually mean. Even though he used many unusual

words such as 'pounding your tail,' and 'bustin a gut' these words

helped the novel quite some bit, and brought out various aspects of

the story. Steinbeck also used a variety of literary devices. One of

the main literary devices Steinbeck used were metaphors. One example

of a metaphor in the novel could be Candy's dog being a metaphor for

old age. Even though this is only one, there are many more Steinbeck

uses to show various aspects of the story. Other literary devices

Steinbeck uses are alliteration and onomatopoeia. You don't see much

of these literary devices being used, however they are still present.