Steinbeck Essay

In John Steinbeck’s 1937 short story “The Chrysanthemums”, a women sets in her garden, fenced off to protect it from animals, while her husband stood with two business men. The men smoked cigarettes while they studied the little Fordson. The woman’s name is Elisa, she is described as “blocked and heavy”, and wearing a man’s hat, clodhopper shoes, and a figure printed dress mostly covered by an apron. The apron holding snips, the trowel and scratcher, seeds and a knife she worked with. Being a…

walk over a cliff, over he’d go. That wasn’t so damn much fun after a while. He never got mad about it, neither. I’ve beat the hell outa him, and he could bust every bone in my body jus’ with his han’s, but he never lifted a finger against me.” (Steinbeck, 40). George would purposely embarrass Lennie and use the trust that Lennie put in him to make himself look like the good guy. George would use the fact that Lennie was ‘dumb’ for his own amusement. George is a bad friend to Lennie because he…

Purpose of Life In today’s world it is difficult to achieve a life dream, but even more challenging during the 1930’s, a time when many people are unemployed and very poor. Life dreams have a significant part in the novel Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck, particularly the American Dream is brought up often. This refers to the desire in life to own a house and land, be financially stable, have a family, and live an overall happy life. While the American Dream is different for every person, the…

“It is not good to want a thing too much” (Steinbeck 18). Kino is the villain in the novel because his focus is on building his self-image from the pileup of greed rather than attempting to do everything he can to save his son. Kino’s acquisitiveness to money destroys not only the health of society, but his own life too. When the town quickly…

The movie Of Mice and Men is one of a classic American Literature, written by John Steinbeck during The Great Depression. The story contains a plot that traces a journey of two characters, George and Lennie, who migrates around to look for a job. I personally have read this book few years ago, and I was really interested to read because it involves realism in it. The character George and his friend Lennie had nothing in the world except each other and lived with a dream that one day they will…

people traveled from the midwest to California in the hopes of finding a better life but they faced many obstacles, but in order to survive they can’t lose hope in what they were trying to achieve. In the novel “The Grapes Of Wrath” written by John Steinbeck the effects of fear causes people to believe that there is no way of successfulness in their work of farming. The ragged man’s experiences of California make the men fear that they will end up in situations such as his own. While sitting…

In the book Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck, the character George tells Lennie, “Guys like us, that work on ranches, are the loneliest guys in the world. They got no family. They don’t belong no place. . . . With us it ain’t like that. We got a future. We got somebody to talk to that gives a damn about us” (Steinbeck 121). Therefore, George is explaining to Lennie that they are different from the rest of the working men on the ranch and has a type of outlook and attitude that they are better…

The Novella Of Mice and Men, by John Steinbeck, is a great demonstration of how life was in America during the 1930’s. This novella is based around the time of the great depression, many people were lonely, and people did not trust each other. Workers would travel to find any work possible just to keep food on the table. However, the American dream was still alive for most workers in that time except for African Americans, women, people of old age and people with disabilities. They were…

Lennie touching a soft girl’s dress. Their dream is to live on a farm and supply for themselves. Lennie is portrayed as a sympathetic character because of his character traits such as childlike, forgetfulness and unintelligence are given to him by Steinbeck. One of Lennie’s character traits is childlike. Lennie is portrayed as childlike because his actions are immature and George is easily annoyed by Lennie. Also, Lennie takes things too far like when he kills Curley’s wife without the intention…

needed, the narrator points out,“She gathered some brown seaweed and made a flat damp poultice out of it, and this she applied to the baby’s swollen shoulder, which was as good a remedy as any and probably better than the doctor could have done.”(Steinbeck 15) Kino’s quick and practical solution shows his diligence in caring for others,…