Critical Analysis Essay On Of Mice And Men

I am writing an analytical essay on the book Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck. Have you ever thought about what certain things throughout the book Of Mice and Men could connect to or explain in real life? There are many things that can be either subtle or really obvious to the reader about things that can connect to their life, or other people’s lives around them. Through this paper I will try and touch on some of these key things that connect to people’s lives. I will mainly be talking about three certain points to help me analyze the story. These three points are about how things are symbolized, the themes through book sections, the time period, and finally how they all can connect to someone’s life. The book is set back in the day like around the late 1800’s to the early 1900’s so the dialogue between people is unusual and a great …show more content…
One of the biggest themes is cruelty. Crooks makes Lennie cry by making him thing something terrible has happened to his friend Georgie. He also makes fun of the fact that Lennie wanted to have his own farm. He seem to just want to ruin the people around him to feel better about himself. Another big theme was friendship. Lennie and George had a semi good relationship with each other through seventy-five percent of the book. Even though George never admitted it, he actually seemed to really care and look out for Lennie. This showed a type of really close and lucky friendship between two almost polar opposite people. The third and final greatly used theme would have to be that, like with Candy, the “American dream” is not a for sure thing and that it actually rarely happens. Most of the people in the story want to have something they will not have. These things would be like Lennie wanting a farm and that Curley’s wife wanted to be a movie star. The next topic of discussion will be about the time period and how things were said, done, and unusual ways of