Of Mice and Men by John SteinbecK

Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck



Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck

John Steinbeck's novel, Of Mice and Men, was first published in 1937. At the time, America was still pain the bleak aftermath of the depression and the itinerant workers who pattern the basis of the innovative were very much within the consciousness of a territory divided by riches yet propelled by the idea of 'the American dream'. Steinbeck's innovative is, although, vitally a tale of loneliness, of men struggling solely against a freezing, uncaring and faceless destiny.

The centered protagonists, George and Lennie are, as they are pleased to declare, different from the others because they have each other. They are an strange twosome, George the shrewd, wiry yet finally caring protector of the ironically entitled Lennie little, who is, in detail, a gigantic man who doesn't understand his own power and is brain incapable of making the smallest of conclusions for himself; he relies on George absolutely but equally, George needs Lennie as he gives him a reason to keep going. Lennie, regardless of his need of intellect, senses this because when he knows George feels at fault for being furious with him, he takes benefit of the moment to manipulate George into doing again the story of their 'dream future', particularly the rabbits they propose to keep with which Lennie is obsessed.

They are not associated but Lennie's auntie has conveyed up George and he has pledged her that he will look after Lennie, now she has died. The mystery illusion they share, of construction a life together on a ranch and 'liv[ing] off the fatta the lan' is centered but the very name of the publication, taken from Robert Burns' verse 'To a Mouse' foreshadows the ultimate beat of their illusion, since it speaks of designs going incorrect.

The two men are en path for another in a sequence of ranch occupations, having been run out of Weed, the location where they before dwelled and worked, because Lennie has been incorrectly suspect of tried rape because of his blameless desire to feel the material of a girl's skirt; afresh there is foreshadowing here of the tragic ending of the novel. Indeed, the entire of the publication pursues the circular movement established by the setting of the starting of the novel and inverting descriptions utilised there in the finish which takes location in the same spot, where Lennie has been warned to return if any thing goes incorrect which inescapably it does.

Upon arrival at the ranch, Steinbeck takes the opportunity to insert the book reader, via the newcomers, to a panoply of individual features, all loners for one reason or another: the old, maimed and dispirited confectionary, the black, crippled and isolated Crooks, the feisty and arrogant boss's child, Curley, who is newly and unhappily wed, his wife being what the other ones call a 'tramp', and the god-like Slim, to who all the other ones gaze up and to who they all ...