Analysis Of John Steinbeck 's ' Of Mice And Men '

Chapter one of Of Mice and Men began by introducing the relationship between the two main characters, George and Lennie. George and Lennie have a unique, brotherly, parental, and friendly dynamic that I believe will be interesting to continue to investigate over the course of reading this book. While reading chapter one, we were exposed to more of the parental side of their relationship, specifically in the scene where Lennie is guzzling down river water and George is warning him to slow down or risk feeling sick afterward. In this instance, George acts like a parent by predicting the consequences of Lennie’s actions as opposed to what a bother or a friend might do which is to allow him to drink the water and feel sick afterward. In addition,

Generally, during the course of the novel, women are viewed negatively. They are seen as objects, not real people. For example, throughout the novel, Curley's wife is merely known as 'Curley's wife'. She is never called by her real name. The term 'Curley's wife' implies she is owned by Curley, and not a person with freedom. From this, the reader can tell that Curley's wife lives in an unfair World, in an era of inequality. This suggests Steinbeck

Moreover, Curley’s wife was described ‘heavily made’ and had ‘full, rouged lips’. This could mean that she is trying to hide her true identity by covering up. She was also wearing a ‘red cotton house dress’ and mules decorated with ‘bouquets of red ostrich feathers’. This empathises her sexual presence; the colour red is mostly referred to love and passion.

Have you ever dreamed of becoming someone important or doing something exciting and memorable? Would you give up or refuse to let go of your dream until you achieve it? Has that obsessive under-minded your success? Many people have dreams that they want to accomplish, but there are obstacles individuals have to cross over in order to achieve their goals, such as facing reality. In the book of Of Mice and Men, written by John Steinbeck, the story is a tale of two drifters working from farm to farm, trying to make a living, and save some money to have their own place someday, which is their dream during the Great Depression. The characters face the hardships

Steinbeck’s theme is that you could lose anything at any point in life. In the novel, out of nowhere Curley lost his wife. It was unexpected, no one would have thought that would happen. As much as Curley acted like he didn't care for his wife when it came down to it, he would give her the revenge she needed and/or deserved. “By Christ, he’s gotta talk when he’s spoke to. What the hell are you gettin’ in for?” (Steinbeck,

In his novel Of Mice and Men, Steinbeck uses many characters to show his assertion that man is basically evil. When Curley’s wife confronts Lennie, Crooks, and Candy in Crook’s place, she notes that the others “left all the weak ones here” (77). The “weak” ones that Curley’s wife refer to all attack each other in a vicious circular firing squad. Crooks taunts Lennie about the possibility of George not returning, and takes “pleasure in his torture” as he “[presses] forward for some kind of private victory” (71). Curley’s wife calls Candy and Lennie “a dum-dum and a lousy ol’ sheep” (78) and threatens to get Crooks “strung up on a tree” (81). Meanwhile, all the other characters are the ones that make those Lennie, Candy, Crooks, and Curley’s wife feel “weak” because they are disabled mentally, disabled physically, black, and female, respectively. In this way, Steinbeck shows that all men are basically evil as they do not lend a hand to each other and instead simply attack and prey upon each other.

.The novel Of Mice and Men was written by John Steinbeck. In Soledad, California during the Great Depression in the 1930's two men of the one named George and the other named Lennie were men who travel around working at ranches. George is the small, quick-witted one, and Lennie is the big, slow, dumb and extremely strong one. They have a dream, to have a little place all to themselves, without anyone bothering them. Their dreams are shattered though, when Lennie, who doesn't know his own strength, gets in trouble. In the pursuit of love, happiness and the American dream, man becomes a victim of his own circumstances and discovers that the good life becomes impossible for humanity to obtain and contains

In this essay I will show how Steinbeck presents Curley’s wife in a number of ways throughout the novel ‘Of Mice and Men’, showing both how she is portrayed as a ‘nice girl’ as well as a ‘floozy’. This novel was set during the great depression and is written around two key themes of the American dream, which every ‘ranch hand’ owned their own patch of land, and loneliness, the only common feeling that each individual in the novel feared. Loneliness was the main theme that caused Curley’s wife to be interpreted in a negative way by the other ranch men.

Just like Curley’s wife, many women back then wanted independence but was not given any thus creating an unfair society. This is the exact reason why Steinbeck does not give a specific name for Curley’s wife, instead creating her character as a violent woman who seeks for independence and can only reach it using through using violence. He wants us the readers to think that Curley’s wife does not have any independence, just simply because she is a woman. She does not like to be stuck with people who are at the bottom of the social ladder like Lennie, Candy, and

In the novella Of Mice and men, Steinbeck is never compassionate on its portrayal of female characters such as Curley’s Wife. Steinbeck offers misogynistic depictions of women who are either deceased parental figures or prostitutes.

Steinbeck uses her to highlight sexism in that generation. She is the only women on the ranch and she is very young. “Her lips are roughed and her fingernail and shoes are red”. The colour ‘red’ can symbolise danger and she could be the one to destroy someone’s hopes and dreams. John Steinbeck describes her as “jail bait”.

n the novel, Of Mice and Men, the author John Steinbeck explores many themes. After Lennie and George are chased out of Weed, California they travel to Soledad, California where they try to find a job. Lennie causes the two of them trouble on many occasions because Lennie is developmentally delayed and says the wrong thing at the wrong time. At last, the two get a job on a ranch where they will buck barley. Of Mice and Men explores the effects of systemic oppression on women, African Americans, and people with disabilities.

Ladies right now were enabled by their spouses, and later on numerous ladies tumbled to sadness. One of the principle characters in this novel was Curley's wife, the same number of ladies confronted dissatisfaction, for instance dream being squashed and in addition goal not being satisfied. Curleys wife needed to be and on-screen character but since of the considerable sorrow she wound up wedded at a youthful age. Steinbeck in this novel doesn't specify once what her name is and this truly demonstrates the class of ladies right now, and in addition the treatment ladies got in light of the colossal misery.

Steinbeck describes Curley’s wife’s appearance as very noticeable. The color red is known to be a supremely striking and seductive color. Steinbeck’s use of repetition with the color red Indicates Curley’s wife’s confidence and desire to seek attention from other men in the farm where she is often lonely and has no-one to talk to. However, at the ending of the book when as is unintentionally killed, Steinbeck describes her physical appearance as “very pretty and simple, and her face was sweet and young. Now her rouged cheeks and her reddened lips made her seem alive and sleeping very lightly.

‘Of Mice And Men' by John Steinbeck is a classic novel, tragedy, written in a social tone. The authorial attitude is idyllic, however, as the story develops it changes into skeptic. It is evident that Steinbeck knew the setting and places he is writing about.