John Steinbeck's Presentation in Of Mice and Men of the Culture and Experience of Itinerant Workers in 1930's America

John Steinbeck's Presentation in Of Mice and Men of the Culture and Experience of Itinerant Workers in 1930's America

The Story written by John Steinbeck called Of Mice and Men were

published in a time of grief, hardship, and great depressions in

1930s. The book takes place in the 1930s, the same time Steinbeck

wrote the novel, during the Wall Street crash and the great depression

when the United States economy suddenly collapsed in disaster. It was

the worst economic crisis it has ever had and it tremendously damaged

the face of America. The Aftermath leads to many unemployed men and

women, businesses closing down and loss of money through out the

country. The Disaster didn't end yet, when the United

Statesexperienced droughts and over farming, and many crops were

destroyed and people starved. All these consequences increased the

number of migrant workers, about 13 million people in 1932 searching

for jobs in order to survive, and their only way of earning money was

traveling far from the cities, into farmlands where work was as simple

as the money they get.

John Steinbeck, born in 1902, grew up during the Depression near

Salinas Valley wrote many fiction books based on his background and

experiences during that time and area of the country. In Of Mice and

Men he writes a story of 2 unemployed young men at the same period of

time and describes their way of life just like Steinbeck is

experiencing at the same time which makes the novel more realistic.

Steinbeck shows us that the experience and culture of the migrant

workers by the way they live and act in their daily lives. The lives

of the migrant workers are presented as hopeles...

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...elationships, their personality, their

culture and experience. And in the story Of Mice and Men Steinbecks is

explain all that to the readers about how their lives or an example of

how his life was at that time, where he makes up 2 main characters

that are totally different from the others and as their lives go on,

their would always be somewhere at some time where it shows that they

both need each other to survive and the importance of it. This could

all be Steinbecks way of telling us the history of what happened at

the time and not sparing anything out as he uses each character in the

story as a valuable model to represent their own society and way of

living in the United States when all hope was lost and it could also

represent similar events happening all over the world or else nobody

would have known any of this.