Naturalism In John Steinbeck's Of Mice And Men

John Steinbeck is famous for the way he describes realistic and naturalistic features throughout the book “Of Mice and Men.” Most of Steinbeck’s books had some kind of fate or injustice in the book. In the book “Of Mice and Men” Lennie had a fate from the beginning of the book. John Steinbeck showed his ability to describe this in the use of realism and naturalistic ways. In the first paragraph John Steinbeck was able to use his ability to describe realistic features in a very forward way. In the book “Of Mice and Men” John Steinbeck described the water for example “The water is warm too, for it has slipped twinkling over the yellow sands in the sunlight before reaching the narrow pool.” This quote shows how the realistic way to describe …show more content…
As Steinbeck describes death throughout the entire book was a very natural way of life. When somebody died it wasn’t a very big deal. In the last paragraph of the book George shoots Lennie because he had killed Curly’s wife. They all made the decision the kill Lennie but they weren’t really worried about the consequences if any. John Steinbeck used naturalism to describe how Lennie and Curly’s wife. Lennie is described having hands as paws when he is playing in the water. For example he wrote “Lennie dabbled his big paw in the water and wiggled his fingers so the water arose in little splashes;” Steinbeck also describes Curly’s wife in a naturalistic way. Steinbeck describes her dress as a red ostriches feathers for example, “Curley’s wife came around the end of the last stall. She came very quietly, so that Lennie didn’t see her. She wore her bright cotton dress and the mules with the red ostrich feathers.” The reason why he uses naturalism to describe her dress because you were able to get a better feel on how colorful and how it stands out better then realism. Steinbeck wrote a character that was a lower class then the other people. For example Crooks was this person. Crooks was a black crippled