Analysis Of The Novel ' Of Mice And Men '

The character in Of Mice and Men that is most similar to Tom Buchanan in The Great Gatsby is Curley. Curley and Tom Buchanan have many similarities throughout both books. These shared characteristics stem from one thing both men have an abundance of: privilege. Curley and Tom are easily two characters with the least amount of struggle in The Great Gatsby and Of Mice and Men.

The author, Steinbeck, uses his own personal experience to “serve as an inspiration…” (Johnson 1) when writing this particular story. His past experiences also helped him for the future. Lennie, of all characters, is the least dynamic. He undergoes a significant amount of change and develops throughout the story. He has been isolated with George throughout his life. His sole purpose in life is to make George happy and to own a farm with George and take care of the soft rabbits. Lennie is the most innocent and defenseless. He also is the largest and strongest, which does not help in certain situations. Lennie is the protagonist in the story. He gains the readers sympathy by his intellectual disability and helplessness. Lennie murders things by accident such as the mouse in his pocket, the puppy and Curley’s wife. He enjoys the touch of and somehow uses those murders and experiences to scare him from doing it again. George’s opinion means the most to him.

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.

In the excerpts George and Lennie are two friends, one smart the other intellectually disabled, both on a ‘mission’ to achieve the American dream. Their journey reveals a lot about the two. Lennie is a follower, in that he follows and imitates George’s every move. Lennie also suffers from a mental disability. It is also understood that they are from a working class upbringing.

Everyone has dreams, big and small. When one dreams, there is a scent of whimsical hope in the air mixed with the powerful drive for success to obtain their luminous goals. But, many times these luscious dreams end up in grief and pain instead of a promised joy due to the hurdles in life, such as the certain circumstances that society professes or the flaws in a person that restrains them from their aspirations. The writer, John Steinbeck, incorporates this ideology in his novella, Of Mice and Men by creating three pivotal characters. Lennie, Crooks, and George all have schemes that go wrong, and yet hope to illustrate their desires of fulfilling their American Dream and to be prosperous for their own independent purposes.

However the story dives deeper than just Lennie and George after leaving a town called Weeds because Lennie was accused of rape. The two were forced to run away which lead them to a ranch where they meet a character named Candy. Candy is an old aging handyman who lost his hand due to an accident. The life on a farm is hard and it is represented through Candy, he says “"A guy on a ranch don 't never listen nor he don 't ask no questions" (Steinbeck 2.67). The isolation he is put through often makes him feel hopeless. The only hopes Candy had was in his dog and in the dreams of getting paradise with

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

Deep down inside, each person has a strong desire for a companion. Someone you can trust, who you can learn from and teach, but most importantly, one who can always be there for you no matter what happens. The relationship between the intelligent and feeble George Milton and the imbecile, but vigorous Lennie Small is displayed as the main objective in Steinbeck 's novel, Of Mice and Men. The description among these two characters is a form of juxtaposition because the two characters vary in several ways. The author’s intention of using this technique points out the differences between characters and how their personalities counteract each other significantly.

Friendship and companionship play a big role in people 's life and how they interact with others, and the world in general. How people build relationships is something that will stick with them for the rest of their lives. The less relationships that people build, the more lonely, and self-kept they become. Throughout the book Of Mice and Men, George, and Lennie are examples of the positive effects on building relationships, and Crooks is an example of the negative effects on not building relationships. Crooks represents loneliness, and not building relationships. George and Lennie represent dependence on one another, and an example of how to build a strong bond/relationship. Throughout the book Of Mice and

“Ideas are like rabbits. You get a couple and learn how to handle them, and pretty soon you have a dozen." John Steinbeck, the author of Of Mice and Men, introduced this concept of once one starts theoretical thinking, it can go on forever. This quote correlates to the American colonists' separation from Britain and formation of the United States because once they read ideas from authors such as Locke, Diderot, and Montesquieu, the colonist began to start thinking and creating their own thoughts about the government and how to improve it. The time was the 1760’s to the 1780’s and the American colonies were being taken advantage of by the British. Writers from France and Britain were making trying to change the government by writing how to fix

The movie begins at a farm with workers and a post boy showing up to bring mail and the father trying to make a rocking chair that ends up breaking once sat on by him. Followed by the father visiting a grave assumed to be his wife's so far. Then we are now in the house were two of his boys are very excited to open the mail waiting for their fathers say to open it. Going through the mail one of the boys names a name a says that he has joined the continentales, but the father follows that up with the fact that he has been called in by the assembly and that they are now off to Charles Town. They arrive in Charles Town only to go to their aunt's house I am assuming that the aunt was on the mother's side. We quickly come to a scene outside with

B. She gets too lonely and depressed to walk alone in the county and meets other men

There are many themes I found while reading of mice and men. They there are a lot of different people in the book, and mentioning of a lot of different topics. Theming is very important for a book it can set the mood or give you the chills, or even make you feel happy for the characters, of even put you in a bad mood, a good author can do all of these in a book which I feel are needed for a story. If you can make a reader have several different emotions towards characters it shows that they are connected to the characters and want the best to happen, or the worst in some scenarios, to these characters, making it a vital part of any story. With

John Steinbeck's Of Mice and Men covers lots of topics within the book. Friendship, love, racism, work quality, “simpler times”, the Great Depression, and mental illness, to name a few. It’s roughly a hundred pages long, but sends very impacting messages for a short book. It can easily be interpreted in many ways, with so many topics there’s almost an endless amount of topics. However, I came away with a theme I relate closely to; sometimes mercy can be better than prolonging the issue.

The book Of mice and men was written in a period when people with mental illness were treated like outcasts. The people were