John Steinbeck's Of Mice And Men: Analysis

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

I can tell that George and Lennie like to argue a whole lot, the reason that i can see they like arguing a lot is because in paragraph 34 it states "You can jus' as well go away, to hell," that makes me think that they don't get along to well. Both Lennie and George could have really good lives, but I think that if it was good that they stuck together, i also like how they have big dreams for they're futures. Even though they were probably going through a rough time because of the great depression, it would have been really hard for them to find a job. Some of the benefits that they could of have is that George already had things planned for him and Lennie, in the future, "a little house and a couple of acres, a cow, and some pigs. " I got that textual evidence from paragraph 9.

"5. George is speaking about his and Lennie’s dream. He starts by saying, “’O.K. Someday – we’re gonna get the jack together and we’re gonna have a little house and a couple of acres an’ a cow and some pigs and -’”. Afterwards, Lennie adds that they also will live off the fat of the land and he can tend the

Dear Mr.Stien Beak your book brought sadness and joy.The book of Mice and Men (1936) made me realize that many things lead up to what happened to Lennie was kinda spread out thro the hole book and we didn't know what was going to happen still.The reason that gouge did the right thing was because if curly would have caught Lonnie then he would have made his death really slow and painfully and he did is kill a person witch is not a good th no at all.

A Lesser of Two Evils Sometimes it can seem that a decision can have a terrible short-term outcome, but it is better to think about the long term. This is shown multiple times in the old novella Of Mice and Men, written by John Steinbeck. Firstly, George promises Aunt Clara that he would protect Lennie, no matter what, and George does that when he ends Lennie’s life. If George did not do it, the outcome would have been bloody and unpleasant. To add on to that, even if Lennie got away from the mob and George, he still would not survive on his own.

Of Mice and Men, by John Steinbeck, features a large group of characters who are out on a California farm chasing a goal or who have already given up on a goal. The goals the characters have reflect the hopes of many who were traveling to California during the time of the Great Depression. The characters reflect personal experiences from John Steinbeck?s life, who grew up in California. The characters project the American dream and eventually project the inevitable American failure during the Great Depression. Although characters in John Steinbeck?s Of Mice and Men have self-made high hopes or are inspired by the hopes of others, most of the characters succumb to reality and those hopes become failures.

As stated in chapter 1 Lennie likes mice, however he always kills them because he is to strong. Now Lennie has found pups. He wants to stroke the pups. George admits to Slim that he does not think Lennie is as crazy as he was. George tells Slim about the incident in Weed. Lennie liked to touch things that he liked. He liked touching a girls dress. She screamed and then ran. That’s why they left Weed. Lennie walked in to the bunk house trying to hide a pup. George took the pup. Curly comes in after Lennie. Lennie looked at George and tried to retreat. Curly kept after Lennie. Lennie was terrified from the blood dripping from his nose. Lennie cried to George, “Make him let me alone.” Backed up against the wall Curly continues to hit Lennie. George

all of the bad that was being stirred up accidentally by him., to whomever. It is common amongst civilians in the 1930’s to have a deeper motive in life, considering living through an era of The Great Depression. On the contrary, a sense of animosity can be generated because of events, self-image, or external issues throughout life and can be a detriment to those American goals. In John Steinbeck’s Of Mice and Men, psychological analysis remains to be a consistent key attribute to the story. Steinbeck demonstrates through two nomadic workers a vivid depiction of psychological struggles that are internal and external. Those struggles, if fully understood, can formulate a deeper meaning, as well as grasp the psychoanalytic struggles that people

Helen Keller once said, “Walking with a friend in the dark is better than walking alone in the light”. There is always a time during your lifetime when you will depend on another significant person. John Steinbeck wrote the book Of Mice and Men during the late 1930s, which was during a period of agricultural and economic downfall. As a result, it made people unemployed which made people into migrant workers who suffered the hardships of moving from place to place. Furthermore, through John Steinbeck’s use of characterization, he defines that the friendship between Lennie and George changes how their lives are lived.

This passage develops the beginning of characterization for both Lennie and George by introducing their physical description; moreover by explaining their attire (denim trousers and denim coats with brass buttons), Steinbeck reveals that they are most likely in the working or lower class, for he would have possibly described their clothing as expensive or costly if they were in the upper class. Steinbeck also displays that they are not in the upper class by announcing that they had “tight blanket rolls slung over their shoulders.” By showing that they had bundles dangling from their backs, it makes the reader infer that they don’t have many possessions or that they had to leave them behind.

In chapter two of “Mice of Men”, we see the ranch that Lennie and George have been hired to work on, and this place has a eerie feeling to it. On Pg. 17 George and Lennie enter the ranch’s bunkhouse with the swamper. “Inside the walls were whitewashed and the floors not painted.” Now I could go on with the next page describing this room and with each line making it more depressingly bland and really creepy. Good for me that was not necessary because the room’s inside only need one line to describe that feeling you get while reading it. See if you have ever been in a near colorless room it is so saddening just sitting in there even when Marvin Gaye is playing in the

1. Significance of Title: The title, “Of Mice and Men” comes from a phrase in the poem To a Mouse On Turning up in Her Nest with the Plough by Robert Burns. The second to last stanza contains the line, “the best schemes o’ Mice an’ Men/ Gang aft agley” contains the phrase John Steinbeck based the title for the novel. The poem is similar to the book in that George, Lennie, and the mouse all have a goal that involves months of dedicated work. However, the plough and sudden death of Curley’s wife both bring a sudden end to their dreams. Both disasters were unprecedented, but caused by the fact that George, Lennie, and the Mouse were torn apart by their weaknesses.

Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck ends right where it started, but has a completely different feeling to it. In the beginning, the pond represented a safe haven for Lennie and shown innocence by describing how the rabbits played in the bushes. Now the pond represents death and seems to be all dark and gloomy. Throughout the book, George has taken great care of Lennie and went to all ends to keep them from trouble and to keep him satisfied. He would talk about their future plans to put Lennie at ease and to give them hope. They had been through everything, and now that George is sitting there with Lennie retelling that calming story, he falters at the realization he is about to lose Lennie. Lennie playfully ends the story and adds the line,

About the Author: John Ernst Steinbeck was born on February 27th, 1902. He died on December 20th, 1968. He was an American author of 27 books, one of them is “Of Mice and Men.” (Which was published in 1937) Most of Steinbeck’s work is set in southern, and central California. He was the winner of the 1962 Nobel Prize in LIterature.

The title of this book is Of Mice and Men written by John Steinbeck who is an American.