Essay about Winesburg, Ohio by Sherwood Anderson

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

George is one of people in the ranch that had big goals to achieve, but he couldn’t accomplish any of them because of Lennie. George taking care of Lennie affects his dreams in a big way because every time George gets closer to his dreams Lennie completely ruins it. In the story it states George saying “ dumb bastard likes to touch everything he likes”(steinbeck 41). This is very important because this shows how childish lennie acts. The most important thing to him was to have dreams to have a farm and his own place with Lennie. This quote “ we got a future “ (Pg . 14) shows that he had a dream worth living for. Another way George had gotten his dreams taken away was when Lennie killed their boss’s wife. I know that George was a very lonely person because in the story he talks about guys like him in the ranch . “ guys like us , that work on a ranch are the loneliest guys in the world” (Pg . 13). This is very important because it shows his feelings towards being lonely.

Owning a farm where you can “live offa the fatta the lan’” is George and Lennie’s dream (57). Where they can have crops,“a little house. . . a room to ourself[themselves]”,and of course animals especially rabbits (58). The farm for George will be a place he can be independent while still taking care of Lennie, he can be his own boss in a place of security and comfort. The farm for Lennie would be a sanctuary from a world that does not understand him. There would be a responsibility for him to tend the rabbits, the attribute of the farm that excites him most,while still being with George.

Winesburg, Ohio is a compilation of short tales written by Sherwood Anderson and published as a whole in 1919. The short tales formulate the common themes for the novel as follows: isolation and loneliness, discovery, inhibition, and cultural failure.

George Milton, a character in the story Of Mice and Men, teaches us that we can not take our friends for granted and how the amount of injustice there was. There were two main characters, George and Lennie, and many other minor characters in the story. I chose George Milton because he is Lennie’s best friend and was a parent toward him. Of Mice and Men written by John Steinbeck, shows us through George that even our best friends can sometimes turn against us.

A stated reason for going there: they were forced to leave the ranch where they had been working; George wants to be independent and stop having to travel all the time.

George is the second main character and one of the protagonist after Lennie in Of Mice and Men. When Lennie gets into trouble, He always helps him find a solution or get away, though Lennie’s size combined with his mental handicap caused problems frequently. He is also a planner, telling Lennie where he should go if there is trouble on the ranch. To make the dream which is owing a ten-acre farm becomes a reality, He’s competent to work hard. Unlike the other ranch hands that squander their money on women and drink, George refuses to spend a dime in vain, saving everything to make the dream happen. He wants to buy the farm so that he and Lennie can live there, free from problems and constraints

“Everything you say and do is having an impact on others” (Barry Manilow Quotes). George has been impacting Lennie’s life ever since they were young, and he bossed him around. George tells Lennie what to do before they left to go to work at the ranch to make sure Lennie doesn’t do anything that could ruin their chances of achieving their dream, which later they added Candy to their group to get more money and help to make it happen. In the end, Lennie killed Curley’s wife, so George had to kill him to prevent him from suffering and because he believed that their dream was never going to happen due to the accident. George’s dream of being his own boss with his own farm impacts Lennie, Candy, and Curley’s wife both positively and negatively by

George had thoughts about getting a house up on a mountain where he can be by himself but he also didn't want to feel alone. Slim has been helping George recover while everyone worried about themselves, Curly didn't like George after what Lennie did, Crooks was living in the barn still by himself, and Candy would visit Lennie's grave once a week. Every day had felt like a year for George, every hour a day, every minute a hour. The owner of the farm, Curly’s father, had retired because he felt that the farm was failing so he

The ultimate dream of George and Lennie was to not have to work for anyone, living independently in their own ranch without having to rely on anyone. Even Candy shares this feeling, thinking he’d be fired due to him not being able to work well: “They’ll can me purty soon. Jus’ as soon as I can’t swamp out no bunkhouses they’ll put me on the county.” (Steinbeck 76.) George in the end gives Lennie the freedom he deserved, no longer having to deal with the world that treated me horribly or having to disappoint George.

In the novella the most important tone is disappointment. In August the author introduces the Miller’s Robert, Elizabeth, and their young son Thomas. They live on their 60 beautiful Pennsylvania acres. They grow their own food, spin their own wool, and make their own cloth. Robert is an excellent craftsman, he make all their furniture with old tools. They live on a mere $348.67 a year and barter for anything else they may need. The Miller’s live very modestly with no electricity and, of course, no phone or television; they have no car and walk everywhere. When Robert left the army he purchased the farm and had a very specific way of life in mind. Liz and Tommy seem to be full partners in Bob’s endeavors but this quickly changes. When the time comes to slaughter the lambs seven year old Tommy decides he wants no part of it. Bob becomes impatient and gets angry with Tommy. This has always been a normal way of life for Tommy and his father doesn 't

The stories of Sherwood Anderson’s Winesburg, Ohio are an intersecting group of tales that emphasize the grotesque over a wide spectrum. While some of Anderson’s stories focus upon the physical grotesque, other characterizations demonstrate the ability of the human psyche to exemplify the grotesque. Such is the case with Anderson’s short story “Hands.” “Hands” is a story of society’s tendency to marginalize those who can be categorized as grotesque, or those who simply refuse categorization entirely. Anderson’s tale of social isolation utilizes the image of the hands to symbolize the emotional expression of Wing Biddlebaum in order to drive an implicit theme that emotional internalization and social isolation is a veritable prison.

George and Lennie wanted a farm, somewhere that they could live in peace, and not having to work for anyone. Throughout the book George looks for ways to make enough money to buy a farm for him and Lennie, they start by finding a job at the bunkhouse and they work hard. Subsequently, in the book they let Candy join them in their dream of a farm. In this book the characters are looking for ways to make their dreams come true by working adamantine or finding people that also have a similar dream or goal and

There are certain things that interlock humanity together, tie us down to our humanness. We all have similar physical features: nose, mouth, speech, feet, hands. Every person is individual designed, holding the same features, but shown in their own beautiful way, hands especially.Even grotesque creatures carry these characteristics. However, theirs seems to be seen as something less than beautiful. Grotesque, if you will. Sherwood Anderson, through his work Winesburg, Ohio, shows these beautiful features, specifically hands, shared by humanity tie us down to our stories—good and bad.

Falling Action: George says he wants Lennie to stay with him. He comments that ranch workers are always lonely, but he and Lennie are different because they have one another.