Analysis Of John Steinbeck's Of Mice And Men

John Steinbeck’s best selling novella Of Mice and Men, published in the year of 1937, revealed the tatical survival methods of two young men during the Great Depression, who wanted to saved every penny for their best laid plans. Mr. Steinbeck, a Californian himself, experienced the terror of going from riches to rags in his lifetime, not only those memoirs gathered admiralty, but the brilliance of manipulation of fusing literature with the harsh conditions of society, foregoing it with his own life. Unlike most authors instead of sitting through college, Mr. Steinbeck spent most of time in the fields after dropping out of college; with his career as a writer and manual laborer, it could be easily alluded that he received the inspiration from this as well as the economic reason. This story took off in the Great Depression in the Wild Wild West of

In California, the bright flashes of signs of farms made it a haven for the migrant workers. George and Lennie were migrant workers who constantly looked for jobs, however, they were different than the average migrant worker because they had each other. These migrant workers worked constantly in fields under the severe radiation of heat from the sun causing detrimental effects coupled with the lack of hygiene in the ranches. Their life revolved around depression and bitterness resting on their physical abilities to make a living. The lost of the American Dream due to the restlessness of working laboriously and the lost of hope all contributed to the depression for the migrant workers. In Of Mice and Men, Crooks and Candy, both perked up the to thoughts of the Dream, however, it was diminished by a higher up social class member, Curley’s wife. Therefore the contribution of the unfair treatment by the owners of the land who bullied the men into losing the hope of achieving the American