Of Mice And Men Western Analysis

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.

John Ernst Steinbeck Jr. was an American author wrote many novels including one of his most famous, Of Mice and Men. Of Mice and Men teaches many lessons about the nature of human existence. Each relationship grows throughout this short story and end with a dramatic experience. All of the characters, including Lennie, George, Crooks, and Curley’s wife, admit, at one time or another, to having a profound sense of isolation, seclusion and loneliness.

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.

This theme of of Mice and Men is that things don't always work out the way you plan, its developed through the characters dialogue and actions the throughout the book. The two main characters ,George and Lennie, despite their differences, form a family like friendship to face the loneliness that comes with being a Ranch workers. Lennie and George both cling to the hope that they can one day buy a small house throughout the course of the book. Their idea is first mentioned in the beginning, but it's clear the this idea was thought of before the book's plot line. "O.K. Someday- we're gonna get the jack together and we're gonna get the jack together and we're gonna have a little house and couple of acres an' a cow and some pig and--" This shows

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.

Of mice and men is this tale of 2 people with a dream. They got wants and needs and everything inbetween. But at the end of the day it's back to basics at “ because I got you to look after me, and you got me to look after you, and that's why." i chose that quote and that quote exactly because it doesn't just relate to them but it can relate to anyone. You might rely on a mom or dad , sister/brother. Whoever it may be you two no you have eachothers back. To get back to the point though this story has adventure , suspense , violence along with so many other exciting parts that will make you never want to put the book down. When i walked into the classroom and saw the board “of mice and men chapter 1” there's nothing more i wanted to do them go home but by the last line

“He shook her then, and he was angry with her. ‘Don’t you go yellin’,’ he said, and he shook her; and her body flopped like a fish. (91).These was one of the events that took place at the end of John Steinbeck’s book, Of Mice and Men. After endless catastrophes and tragedies, Lennie small, a giant mental handicapped, and best friend of George. He makes a terrifying mistake of killing of Curley’s wife at the ranch. The men at the ranch try to bring Lennie to justice by killing him brutally. So, George should make a right decision of what to do with Lennie. In the end, George did the right thing by killing Lennie because he killed a woman, Lennie was mentally handicapped, and men at the ranch would have killed him.

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

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Dreaming of a Reality George and Lennie, in the book Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck, both have a dream of owning a small, self sufficient farm together. As cohesive as this dream is, the meaning of the word dream is divergent between the two. To Lennie this dream of owning a farm is a realistic, tangible goal for his and George’s future, but to George this dream is an unreachable fantasy that he and Lennie conjured up as an ideal life. Now that Lennie has passed, this dream will remain predominantly a thought to entertain George’s mind and will not become an actuality. There are two types of dreams: dreams that are aspirations for a greater future, and dreams that are fantasies to please wandering minds; Lennie and George use each definition,

In John Steinbeck’s novel Of Mice and Men characters in the novel are segregated by sex, race, age, physical and mental disabilities. John Steinbeck portrays the intolerance and bigotry of 1930’s America through the separation of his characters based on their handicaps. Lennie, Candy, Candy’s dog, Curley’s wife and Crooks all face social pressure from the other characters on the ranch based on their intelligence, physical disability, age, sex and color. Stereotyping based on ethnic or physical characteristics is typical to the 1930’s depression where civil rights for minority groups had not yet been addressed. Almost all of the characters who, in

Mice and Men, in my opinion had a very surprising conclusion. In the beginning of chapter five, it starts out with Lennie in the barn petting his puppy, which is now dead. He becomes very sad and even a little angry because he remembers how George told him that if he had done anything wrong that he would not be allowed to tend the rabbits. Curley’s wife entered the barn and saw Lennie. Lennie noticed her presence and tries to hide the deceased animal by covering it in hay.

Of Mice and Men: Reading Check CH 3 As with the previous chapters of Of Mice and Men, Chapter Three includes various similar themes, such as friendship, loneliness, mental disability, racism, strong v. weak, and dreams v. reality. The most prominent of these is friendship, which can be seen more clearly as the characters warm up to each other. As Slim and George strike up a conversation over playing cards, the topic of George and Lennie’s unusual relationship is brought up by Slim: ‘Hardly none of the guys ever travel together. I hardly never seen two guys travel together.

Walt Disney once said that “all of our dreams can come true, if we have the courage to pursue them.” The concept of dreams and aspirations are what connects the two seemingly different Of Mice and Men and A Raisin in the Sun. Of Mice and Men, written by John Steinbeck, portrays a story of two poor farm hands living in California, one of which is handicap. This pair, despite all efforts, fail to accomplish this dream, showing a very anti-american dream aspect of this novel. On the other hand, A Raisin in the Sun, written by Lorraine Hansberry, shows a post WWII African American family who struggles to achieve their own individual goals in the face of racial discrimination and family quarrels. However, they overcome the adversity of this time and attain their goal. At face value, these two works of literature are divergent, but at second glance there are similarities between the theme of dreams, the accessibility of the American Dream, and theme of family.