to handle them, and pretty soon you have a dozen.” John Steinbeck was a firm believer in the idea that literature could change the way that people think and perceive the world. John Steinbeck was born in California in the early 1900s. Around this time, Theodore Roosevelt was president, the Philippine war was coming to a close, and Cuba was gaining their independence from the United States. Living in the more undeveloped frontier in California, John Steinbeck found that the nature and the environment
John Steinbeck’s “Of Mice and Men” is a book of high achievements peaking with the nobel prize in literature. The book has received different interpretations of the variety of aspects found within the book. Many of these arguments centralizing around the reasoning behind Steinbeck's characters and plot(action). Less of these about the application of setting that Steinbeck uses under the radar of readers. His unique application of setting at the beginning of every chapter and extending it majorly
prior to awarding John Steinbeck the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1962. As a manual laborer in California during the Great Depression, Steinbeck experienced the graveness and isolation of working men. Due to the lack of trust during the Great Depression era it was hard to find and connect with other people. Although alienation can initially appear detrimental to the mind it can result in a positive eye opening experience. The Grapes of Wrath and Of Mice and Men, and Steinbeck’s Nobel Prize of Literature
Importance Of Dreams In Of Mice And Men John Steinbeck’s novella, Of Mice and Men, is about two migrant workers, George and Lennie, who travel California in search of a job. They eventually arrived in Soledad, and meet many interesting characters such as Candy and Curley. Lennie gets in a lot of trouble but ends up accidentally killing Curley’s wife. Even though George takes care of Lennie due to a mental illness he has, George knows what must be done and kills Lennie with a Luger. In the novella
difficult life of the Great Depression in the 1930s is portrayed in John Steinbeck’s Of Mice and Men. People suffer from economic shortage, they lose trust to each other, bullying is surrounding the society. Steinbeck subtly and indirectly uses allegories to bring out the moral message of the impossibility of the american dream, the fate of the weak, and discrimination and isolation. Steinbeck presents the impossibility of the american dream through George, Lennie, and Candy, reflecting the hopelessness