Comparison Of John Steinbeck's Of Mice And Men

Of Mice and Men, a novel written by John Steinbeck, has its title derived from the poem To a Mouse. The title, is a very significant part of the novel and gives it a deeper meaning once it has been looked at more closely and compared to the poem. To A Mouse has a very similar theme and ending to Of Mice and Men, the shattered dream and pain instead of the promised plan. In the end, both mice and men will suffer.

The “Men” in the title Of Mice and Men are the ranch workers, such as Lennie and George. They don’t have a family and travel from ranch to ranch working. In the end, all of them have the same dream of “that same damn thing in their heads...a little piece of land”(74 Steinbeck) and “ [to] live on the fatta the lan’”(15 Steinbeck). The

In the poem, a mouse has built a cozy house prepared for the incoming winter. However, a farmer accidentally plows over the mouse’s home, causing the mouse to have no shelter for when winter comes, “Thy wee-bit housie, too, in ruin!”(19 Burns) . Because of what the farmer had accidentally done, it caused the mouse have no shelter making it almost certain that the mouse will die. This is very similar to the novel, George and Lennie had planned out how they would be able to live a better life but their dreams were shattered after Lennie makes a grave

This one stanza can be used to describe almost the entire novel, George and Lennie had planned everything out. Their is also a parallel with the mouse’s story, since the mouse had also planned out how it would survive the winter but its home or dream gets destroyed by a cruel act of fate. They, the men and the mice, pictured everything perfectly and hoped for a better future. Lennie and George they would soon purchase a piece of land for themselves and have a peaceful life by living “on the fatta the lan’”(15 Steinbeck) . But in the end, Lennie commits murder unintentionally and has to be killed, shattering the promised