John Steinbeck's Use Of Foreshadowing In Of Mice And Men

Steinbeck’s Use of Foreshadowing Steinback uses foreshadowing in “Of Mice and Men” to make this classic book. The story is about to migrant workers who have dreams of owning a ranch. But the problem is that one of the workers, Lennie, loves soft things which causes them problems. How does Steinback use foreshadowing in “Of Mice and Men”? John Steinback uses foreshadowing by alluding to the poem, talking about Lennie’s obsession, the idea of the “American Dream”, and the parallel between the dog and Lennie in the four documents. One example of Steinback’s foreshadowing is his allure to the poem “To a Mouse” By Robert Burns. In the poem it talks about a farmer who accidently messes up a mouse’s house and talks about how “The best schemes of mice and

In the book everything he touches he kills with his strength like a women, a puppy, and a mouse. Which foreshadows his death because his strength kills everything and he does understand his own strength which forces the others to kill him.

The third example of Steinback’s use of foreshadowing in “Of Mice and Men” is his Idea of the American Dream. In the third document George and Lennie talk about buying a little piece of land and them getting the money to purchase the land. The use of the ranch in the book ties into the American Dream in the story. But sometimes the dream can be unachievable which foreshadows to the story how everything went haywire and crazy where there dream never came true of them owning that little piece of land.

The final example of foreshadowing in the story is document d “Right in the back of the head”. This article foreshadows Candy’s dog getting shot like Lennie gets shot for the sake of others. Where in the dogs case it got shot because it was old and smelly while in Lennie’s case it was his harm to others. It was a sad conclusion but they justified it for the good of the group that no more harm was done to both the dog and