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

Imagine if you had almost no money, only had 1 true friend, and one goal that you will do anything to achieve. That's the life of George and Lennie, two farm hands who are about to start working on a ranch in Salinas, California. It seemed like everything was going well for the two of them, or at least they thought it was. Steinbeck argues, throughout Of Mice and Men, that we as humans need to be able to comprehend the fact that the American dream is impossible, so when we fail at that, we won't fall as hard as we might if we had full faith in it, and he develops this stance using diction choices, imagery, and characterization.

To them it was a dream but to me it would have been a nightmare. The book took place place in the Great Depression and the two main characters of the book, George and Lennie, set out to make a living for themselves by working on a ranch. The ranch the two boys were working on was only a temporary plan before the got enough money to get there own farm and fulfill their american dream. The book Of Mice and Men by “John Steinbeck” shows three different conflicts racism, loneliness, mortality.

The second chapter of the novella begins in contrast to the vivid setting of the first. Where Chapter 1’s ​setting is captured in colorful ​and​ ​vivid imagery​, the setting of Chapter 2 is described in short sentences and dull colors. For example, the phrases ​"​runs​ ​deep​ ​and green",​ ​"twinkling​ ​over​ ​the​ ​yellow​ ​sands",​ ​and "​golden​ ​foothill​ ​slopes" in juxtaposition to the phrases “long rectangular building”, “walls were whitewashed”, and “floor unpainted” are clearly different in terms of color and syntax. The transition from a captivating forest to a sad room for workers represents the beginning of a uniformed life.

The novel Of Mice and Men written by John Steinbeck is set in America in the 1930’s and it describes the lives of migrant farmers as they go from farm to farm looking for jobs. It also shows the loneliness of the characters and the hard work that they put in. The main characters of the book are Lennie, a man-child, and George, a small man but very powerful character that takes care of Lennie in their journey. Also when they get to the farm they meet the bosses wife who is very lonely and looks for company in the workers. Steinbeck uses characterization to bring his characters to life using various techniques.

American journalist David Grann once said, “You want the story to be about something, have some deeper meaning, but there is also an emotional, almost instinctual element, which is, does this story seize some part of you and compel you to get to the bottom of it?” Every piece of text has a meaning that goes deeper than the page it is printed on. Of Mice and Men is an example of this. Of Mice and Men was written by John Steinbeck in 1937. The story takes place in California during the Great Depression, a time where it was laborious to be anything close to successful. Everyone believed that with a minimal amount of hard work and money saved up, the American Dream could be at their fingertips. The two main characters George and Lennie struggle to get land to call their own. Lennie is driven by his dream of tending rabbits, but he makes it challenging when he is the main reason of their setbacks and complications as they move from job to job. Fortunately, George is always there to clean up the mess. Of Mice and Men is studied as an allegory because the characters symbolize problems more substantial than the ones Steinbeck clearly writes about. John Steinbeck zooms in on other problems that America struggles with besides the enticing desire for just materialistic things. Steinbeck criticizes racism, the mistreatment of those who are disabled, and the disrespect of women.

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

John Steinbeck, an American novelist, is well-known for his familiar themes of depression and loneliness. He uses these themes throughout a majority of his novels. These themes come from his childhood and growing up during the stock market crash. A reader can see his depiction of his childhood era. In Of Mice and Men, Steinbeck shows the prominent themes of loneliness, the need for relationships, and the loss of dreams in the 1930s through the novels’ character.

The daily struggle of the working class, fear of loneliness and the reality of putting all your energy into plans that fail are the different themes relating to John Steinbeck 's novel, "Of Mice and Men". The characters depicted by the author are individuals who are constantly facing one obstacle after another. The book illustrates different conflicts such as man versus society, man versus man, man versus himself and idealism versus reality. The book 's backdrop is set in the Salinas, California during the depression. The two main characters include two men, George and Lennie. Supportive characters include a few ranch hands, Candy, Crooks, Curly, Slim and Carlson.

Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck is an interesting book that has many different interpretations of its theme. However, I think that the theme is that not everything goes as planned and that John Steinbeck used Lennie to help show this theme. I think that that is the theme because plans did not work multiple times, including George and Lennie’s plan to keep working in Weed, the plan to get the farm, the plan to stay away from Curley’s wife, the plan to keep Lennie out of trouble, and the plan to stay away from Curley, and Lennie is involved in all of these.

The book Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck tells a story about Two itinerant Farm workers named George and Lennie and their problems in a ranch a few miles south of Soledad. The two men have a conflict with society and how they are treated. The main theme of the book is to remind us how harsh the real world can be and how our dreams don't always come true.

In January of 1936, John Steinbeck began writing Of Mice and Men in the middle of the largest economic downturn the United States has ever seen and later referred to as, The Great Depression. “Throughout the country the fall off in international trade had closed thousands of small business enterprises, forced small and large farmers off their properties and brought hundreds of little rural communities to the edge of poverty and beyond”. (O 'Connor, 2014) Attempting to bring the world into a fictional panorama, Steinbeck achieved this goal by following the accounts that have unfortunately taken place in the world with a shocking, yet slightly satisfying twist. Although this story is only fiction, it certainly contains the presentiment and agony that most U.S citizens were facing during this incredibly restless era. Nonetheless, the book itself is still fictional. The historical accounts in John Steinbeck’s Of Mice and Men and the verisimilitude in the real world are extremely accurate.

In chapter one of Mice and Men, John Steinbeck uses a simile to describe the serenity of the setting, "rabbits sat as quietly as little gray, sculptured stones". As we look at what the rabbits are being compared to, "sculptured stones", it explains that the rabbits were behaving like sculptures and it emphasises the stillness of movement which creates an un disturbed atmosphere. However the sibilance from "sculptured stones" illustrates a sense of mysteriousness and harshness made from the hissing noise being formed as you say the soft consonants before the words. This may present negativity in the imagination which could lead the reader into thinking that the rabbits had their own depression and a lack of liveliness. On the other hand, it

John Steinbeck’s book Of Mice and Men presents the story of two men trying and struggling to find the “American Dream”. In southern Salinas, California during the 1930’s the main characters Lennie, a giant man with a childlike aura and George, the opposite of Lennie, a small man with strong features are displaced migrant ranch workers, that travel from town to town together in hunt of new work opportunities in the middle of the hardest time in history, The Great Depression. Throughout the novel, George dreams of becoming his own boss, to own his own piece of land, and most importantly to be a "somebody" in life. Lennie, George’s companion and also

John Steinbeck wrote ‘Of Mice and Men’ to show how hard life was for migrant ranch workers during the time of the Great Depression and how they were often exploited by their employers. In showing how George and Lennie’s dream of owning their own piece of land did not come true, Steinbeck explores a wider theme, criticising the idea of the American Dream. The American Dream tells people that there is ‘opportunity for each... regardless of the fortuitous circumstance of birth and position. Steinbeck criticises this as these ranch workers were given few opportunities. Settings play a very important part in the novel as they pinpoint clear times and places giving a sense of realism to the story, but they are also used to create atmosphere.

Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck is a tale set in depression-era California. The story follows best friends George Milton and Lennie Small and how they learn to navigate life working on a ranch run by a cruel man named Curley. George and Lennie have a plan that once they save enough money they will quit their jobs on the ranch and purchase their own “Dream Farm”. While they are working to achieve that goal, they learn that others on the ranch have their fair share of secret dreams as well, though ultimately all of the characters’ dreams fail like how the classic American dream always fails. The characters that prove that the American dream is unrealistic and never succeeds are Curley’s Wife, Crook, and Lennie.