‘Classic’ Novel Essay - By Sarah Sprouster John Steinbeck's critically acclaimed classic novella ‘Of Mice and Men’ is considered one of the greatest American classics. A classic is a book that has never finished saying what it has to say. ‘Of Mice and Men’ shows this characteristics throughout the book. The novella deals with themes that everyone can relate to and has been translated into many languages showing how universal it is. Two migrant workers, George and Lennie, were let off a bus miles away from the California farm where they are to start work. George is a small, dark man with “sharp, strong features.” Lennie, is his polar opposite, a giant man with a “shapeless” face. Overcome with a feeling of fatigue, or perhaps they just wanted one more night to lay under the stars, before they have to endure a momentous work load. The protagonist decided to …show more content…
Almost all of the characters, including Lennie, George, Crooks, Candy, and Curley’s wife confess to having an overwhelming feeling of being loneliness or reclusiveness. Steinbeck raises some thought to the reader that the novel would be based on loneliness. The first line read "A few miles south of Soledad". This is a clever concept by Steinbeck because "Soledad" means loneliness in Spanish. The characters are completely left hopeless from isolation and would of endure one of the loneliest time periods in history and even when they are at their weakest. They seek to diminish others that are weaker than they are. A significant example of this savage tendency is when Crooks criticizes Lennie’s dream of the farm and how dependent he is on George when he just admitted his own vulnerabilities. George also repetitively reminds Lennie that life on ranch is one of the loneliest lives to lead. All most all the characters are searching for a friend but George's desire for any some sort of companionship dies when Lennie