The book Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck took place in California during the Great Depression. The Great Depression started because the stock markets crashed all around the world. The United States didn’t recover until 12 years later, the end 1939. Most people had poor living conditions and women didn’t have many rights during that time period. Many of the children had to leave school to help support their families on the farm doing farm work. Many women had to give up their jobs to become stay at home moms. Lots of people became homeless because they couldn’t pay rent. During this time, many people became discriminate because they were in competition for jobs. Many people died from starvation and from illness. In most cases, people didn’t have bathrooms, which weren’t very clean. The novel is told in objective third person. Lennie and George are the protagonists in this book. Slim, Candy, Crooks, Curley, and Curley’s wife are other characters that appear in the book. John Steinbeck wrote the novel in a descriptive style. …show more content…
It means that mice and men might die, but only the men are aware that they die, that the mouse cannot think of the past or the future. The story refers Lennie as the mouse and George as the man. Lennie doesn’t have to remember anything and that he no longer has to anticipate anything. George will have to live with what he did to Lennie for as long as he lives
Of Mice and Men is about two friends who travel around California looking for work. George and Lennie are running from the guys in Weed, trying not to get Lennie lynched from grabbing ahold of a girl’s dress. George and Lennie are making money to buy their own place. They want to tend some rabbits, have a cow, pigs, and chickens. They want to have a vegetable patch and have a little alfalfa. They make some friends at the new place in Soledad and get themselves into a bit of