Handicaps, Hardships, and Friendships in “Of Mice and Men” The American Dream is a dream that everyone imagines to be picture perfect. The American Dream means having freedom, equality and opportunity’s to achieve the dream that you conceptualize to be right by you. In the novel, Of Mice and Men, Steinbeck did not want to just illustrate the American dream as being easy, but he wanted to point out the American Dream as being difficult too. Steinbeck made a work of art by composing a great novel
A few miles south of Soledad, in Salinas, California, a tale of friendship and sacrifice unfolds, involving protagonists George and Lennie among others. Written by John Steinbeck, the realistic fiction novella, Of Mice & Men, takes place during America’s Great Depression in the 1930’s. Since it was written during such a tumultuous time in America’s history, loneliness, discrimination, and social injustice are prominent, unforgiving themes throughout the story. Though the ranch where the story takes
“Of Mice and Men” is a novella written by John Steinbeck in the 1930’s and he used the line from an 18th Century poem by Robert Burns as the title of the story. “Of Mice and Men” (“OMaM”) as a title foreshadows the idea portrayed by Burns in his poem “To a mouse” because in this poem the mouse’s house was destroyed in an accidental mistake which implies dreams being shattered and depression along with death following as a result. Loneliness is a key theme in this book which outlines the harsh life
characters in Of Mice and Men can be seen as victims in one way or another discuss “Of Mice and Men” was set in the Great Depression which could make every one in the book a victim, whatever their circumstance. Most people didn’t have a job and those who were employed were working in terrible conditions; they were victims of an employment system which gave no rights to the workers. Job insecurity meant that workers were forced to take low pay and the mass of unemployed men meant that anyone