Short-Term Adversity In John Steinbeck's On The Road

Steinbeck’s Of Mice and Men takes place in the United States of America during the Great Depression. Throughout the Great Depression, numerous transients faced internal and external conflicts as they embarked on the search for jobs that could provide stability. For innumerable persons, this necessity took priority and caused other significant aspects of life to be overlooked. In Steinbeck’s Of Mice and Men, the conflicts experienced by Candy, George (and Lennie), and Curley’s wife, develop the theme that transience can be damaging to one’s relationships with others.

John Steinbeck’s novel Of Mice and Men follows the journey of two men, George Milton and Lennie Small, who struggle through the navigation of working on a ranch in California and fulfilling their dreams together during a time of financial depression. The novel begins with George and Lennie traveling through the California wilderness to get to a new ranch just south of Soledad where they are going to begin new work. They had to leave their previous jobs in a town called Weed because Lennie had caused trouble with a girl by holding on to her red dress because he wanted to feel it, and this incident spiraled into rape allegations against Lennie. As George and Lennie make their way to the new ranch, Lennie; who is a large, but simple minded man; found a dead mouse and wanted to keep it to pet because he likes soft things. George, who is more serious and protects Lennie, takes the mouse away from him because even though it’s dead, he should not be messing with it. Lennie often does not realize his strength because of his mental incapabilities and as a result, he causes a lot of trouble and harm. George finds taking care of Lennie to be taxing, but he knows that their friendship is an important bond that he does not want to be without. In order to comfort Lennie in the wilderness, George tells the story of their shared dream to own their own ranch where they can follow their own rules and live as they please. When they finally arrive at the ranch the next day, George and Lennie

Throughout the book, “Of Mice and Men”,George and Lennie have faced many difficulties and problems. But they never quite gave up on each other. In the book, “Of Mice and Men”, John Steinbeck stated many things to prove the main idea. Throughout the book, John Steinbeck shows the difficulties that George and Lennie have to deal with. He states on how they are different, their problems and what keeps their relationship stable. Friendships may be difficult and put you out from the rest, but it has it’s values.

Picking up the book “Of Mice and Men” by John Steinbeck holds a different feel then putting it down. Leaving the reader pondering the true theme of the story. A tale among two friends is the mindset most would assume before reading the book but digging deeper you start to realize the dark truth. The story starts with both Lenny who’s large and unaware of his own true strength and George who’s skinny and quick witted. The tale takes both characters and presents them with challenges. Lennie has a mild mental disability which often leads both of them into a lot of trouble. While George must take care of Lennie and always get him out of trouble. Two characters who travel together would be envisioned to be best pals but what awaits them is a rude awakening, George says “Lennie just come along with me out workin '. Got kinda used to each other after a little while” (Steinbeck 3.12).

Robert Burn’s line “The best-laid plans of mice and men often go awry” applies to George and Lennie in many ways. There are many examples of how their goals and dreams starts without troubles, but goes to the wrong direction and worse, comes to the point where they, although mainly George, realizes that his and Lennie’s dreams and goals are gone and impossible achieve.

“Of Mice and Men” is a short story written by John Steinbeck. In “Of Mice of Men”, George and Lennie, the main characters, are forced to run away from Weed after Lennie gets in a mix up with a girl and is accused of rape. They end up getting a new job in Soledad to work on a ranch. While there as ranch hands and migrant workers, George and Lennie form good relationships with some, but bad relationships with others. Lennie has tons of physical strength stored deep inside of him that he doesn’t fully understand that he has. With this strength, he unintentionally kills a mouse, breaks Curley’s hand, kills his new puppy, and kills Curley’s wife. Without the option to migrate to another ranch for work, George is forced to kill Lennie for the other men were out to get him. Ever since the beginning of George and Lennie’s adventure they had their dream in mind as a “light of the end the tunnel.” George comforts Lennie with this dream of theirs as he puts the barrel of the gun to the back of his head and pulls the trigger. Dreams play a very important role in this novel. In “Of Mice and Men”, Steinbeck uses failed and elusive dreams to show how captivating life can be when chasing the American Dream.

The poem “To a Mouse” says, “The best laid schemes of mice and men go often askew.” This sentence could not be more true for the characters in John Steinbeck’s Of Mice and Men. Overall, George and Lennie went to a ranch to work because Lennie got them in trouble at their last job. At the ranch, Lennie causes more anxiety after he breaks Curley’s hand, kills a puppy, and kills Curley’s wife. Consequently, this misfortune led to the loss of the dreams of George, Lennie, Candy, and Curley’s wife. Steinbeck’s foreshadowing signaled about the scenes later in the book including the deaths of George and Lennie’s farm dream, Curley’s wife, and Lennie.

George and Lennie had to go into hiding because they were wanted in weed. In the novel Of Mice And Men by John Steinbeck is about George and Lennie going through obstacles to live the American dream which is owning a ranch. A major theme in the novel discusses how loneliness can make people take their anger out on others because of how emotionally hurt they are from being lonely for a long period of time. Steinbeck is foreshadowing and using symbolism to express the theme by creating suspense and emotional connections with the characters and their dreams.

Kennedy Morris Hale English 2 11/15/17 Many people have dreams they carry with them throughout their lives. But some dreams end up discarded and not carried out. In the novel, Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck, the story, set in the 1930s, is told from a third person point of view, which gives readers an outsider's view and allows them to form their own opinions based on how the setting influences the characters. Most of the book is wrapped around the actions, movements, and dreams of Lennie and George. Yet, as the story continues it expands to involve the actions and dreams of the other characters.

Of mice and men, is a suspenseful thriller explaining George and Lennie’s journey from town to town trying to hold down a job during the depression. As the story progresses, you begin to realize that George and Lennie lived in a continuous cycle of working for a short amount of time and then due to various reasons having to skip town and start over with a new job. The pair lived in this cycle due to their own actions and how they interacted with the people around them.

“‘All the time he coulda had such a great time if it wasn’t for you. He woulda took his pay an’ raised hell in a whore house, and he coulda set in a poolroom an’ played snooker. But he got to take care of you.’” (Steinback, 1937 pg.101). In the novel Of Mice and Men, written by John Steinback in 1937, Steinback focuses on the journey of two friends George and Lennie with a unique special bond. Throughout the novel, the two friends share one mutual dream as they work towards it. As the story progresses in the novel, new characters such as; Curley and his wife, Crooks, Candy and Slim are introduced as well as new challenges and problems for the two friends to face together or alone. Will they stay together in the end? Or part ways? In the novel, one of the recurring themes is dependence, which often shown when Lennie has to depend on George, Curley and his wife’s dependence on each other and Crooks on the factory.

Through the imagery found in Steinbeck’s diction, the reader paints a picture of a serene, charming scene where “the golden foothill slopes curve up to the ... mountains” (Of Mice and Men 1) and seemingly nothing could go wrong. But Steinbeck’s novel soon changes, issuing a foreboding sense of future danger when the reader meets the characters. George clearly considers himself Lennie’s caretaker and protector, shielding him from the people in the world who would judge him unfairly due to his inability to understand social situations. George’s insistence in the repetitive “hide in the brush” (Of Mice and Men 15) indicates that at some point in the novel, something will go wrong. George's warning to the readers by instilling this phrase into Lennie's mind gives the reader a sense of wonder about what might happen to George and Lennie.

In the novella Of Mice And Men by John Steinbeck, the relationship between Lennie Small and George Milton is complex. Lennie and George are two companions who look for work and brave the hardships of the Dust Bowl and the Great Depression together. Although Lennie and George are both grown men, their relationship resembles more of a child and a single parent, or a boy and his dog. Lennie is portrayed as animalistic and childish through his behavior and Steinbeck’s comparisons. This reveals the crucial power dynamic in George and Lennie’s relationship.

The Enigma of Society Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck is arguably embodied with some of the best examples of oppression and challenges that men and women face to fulfill their dreams of happiness. This classic American novel depicts the story of George and Lennie, young men dependent on one another working side by side to achieve their ultimate fantasy of freedom and happiness as they struggle to survive and make a living in a world torn apart by the great stock crash of ‘29. In following these men though their emotionally exhausting journey, they both encounter many different characters who find themselves in the same exact predicament as these two men. In reading this well written, clever piece of American literature and history, the untrained eye could oversee what the real message and meaning this classic novel is trying to convey. A prime example of this, is the misunderstandings of the secondary characters that appear within the pages of this literary masterpiece.

The novella Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck reveals the predetermined future for the main characters with three pieces of evidence: we are stuck with heavy burdens weighing us down through life, little pay from our jobs and people who don’t keep to themselfs. In the beginning of the book we meet George Milton and Lennie Small, two men who found each other in an unexplainable situation. As we get to know them we find that Lennie,