Explore the ways writers present ideas about the good and bad in people.
John Steinbeck wrote ‘Of Mice and Men’ using various language and structure techniques to present ideas about the good and bad in people with minimal narration over the entire novel rather than Steinbeck presenting his ideas about each character. Instead, the author written the novel without personal commentary or much narrative insight; he never actually tells us what the character thinks or their mind and how they feel all the time, more precisely, he exposes the characters through their actions and speech. Steinbeck has written this novel originally as a play: this explains the structure of the novel such as his use of a circular pattern of locations, condensed narration, minimal action descriptions, and foreshadowing to connect his plot.
Steinbeck uses imagery related to the nature and specifically animals in the novella ‘Of Mice and Men’ to show the good and bad in people. In ‘Of Mice and Men’, Lennie is extremely strong and sympathetic/piteous character at the same time. His enormous strength exposed through the novel somewhat greatly and often described as animal-like. This extract is from the section when we were first introduced to Lennie and his first presence in the novel.
“Behind him walked his opposite, a huge man, shapeless of face, with large, pale eyes, and wide, sloping shoulders; and he walked heavily, dragging his feet a little, the way a bear drags his paws. His arms did not swing at his sides, but hung loosely.”
Lennie’s hands repeatedly referred as the paws of a bear; to signify his size and strength. These quotations are stated to Lennie’s hand through the novel occasionally “Lennie dabbled his big paw in the water and wiggled his
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The best example through the novel is Curley’s Wife. This quotation is from the section when we were first introduced to Curley’s Wife in the