Steinbeck Essay

Family: In the short stories “The Chrysanthemums” by John Steinbeck and “The Horse Dealer’s Daughter” by D.H. Lawrence, the protagonists, Elisa and Mabel, are treated poorly by their families because they are women. In the short story “The Chrysanthemums”, Elisa’s husband, Henry, does not treat her equally and does not treat her like a person. She is just kind of treated like she is Henry’s possession. “‘Good,’ she said. ‘Good for you.’” (Steinbeck 2) This shows that her husband runs the farm…

”(P20) Steinbeck shows us, further how Lennie looks up to George as a role model. The dialogue which follows is important as we can hear their voices; we can hear George’s parental tone and Lennie’s childish tone. We see George referring to Lennie as a “crazy bastard” to Lennie’s face, but as a “poor bastard” to himself. This shows us that George feels pity for him deep down inside. Steinbeck uses a mouse to show us childish Lennie. George says for Lennie to give him the mouse, but Steinbeck…

with little food, and no money. Author John Steinbeck, writes about the lives of migrant farm workers who had to constantly travel from place to place in order to feed themselves during the Great Depression. Migrant farm workers usually traveled on their own, granted it was much easier. In his novella, Of Mice and Men, Steinbeck uses Candy, Curley’s Wife, and Crooks to demonstrate unimaginable things people will do to avoid loneliness. To begin, Steinbeck uses Candy to show how people will do…

a reader, I enjoy Steinbeck’s use of the intercalary chapter approach. By using the intercalary chapters, Steinbeck is able to create a sense of the time frame and the struggles that people went through. He does this without using the Joad family, which creates the sense that the problems of the era were spanning across the country and not just between a few individual families. Steinbeck likes to give the “whole side of the story” and not just the perspective of the poor migrant families.…

Lennie Small: A Big Influence on the Theme of Of Mice and Men Out of all the books regarding marginalized groups that students must read, Of Mice and Men, a realistic fiction novella by John Steinbeck, is a unique one; it features a mentally ill main character. This novella is about George, a small, thoughtful man, and Lennie, a large, mentally ill man, and how marginalization and the Great Depression make them struggle for their dreams. From this, a theme can be drawn about the novella:…

The Mind In his novel Of Mice and Men, Steinbeck shows the essential loneliness of California ranch life in the 1930s. He illustrates how people are driven to find companionship. There are three phases each character goes through when they are experiencing loneliness for a long period of time. The first phase is called the seeker phase, the second phase is called the hopeless phase, and the last phase is the destroyer phase. At the end of the book, Steinbeck shows how each character reacts…

“So ya’ forgot that awready, did you? I gotta tell you again, do I? Jesus Christ, you are a crazy bastard!”(Steinbeck 3). John Steinbeck wrote Of Mice and Men, which tells an exhilarating story about George Milton, Lennie Smalls, and a ranch in Soledad, California. George, Lennie, and almost everyone on the ranch have a physical or a mental impairment. George cares for Lennie because Lennie is mentally handicapped. Curley has a severely crushed hand, and Candy is missing his hand completely.…

The Novel, “The winter of Our Discontent” written by John Steinbeck is related to the literature of the American Seminar course. Within the novel, it has many moments in which the protagonist, Ethan Hawley, reflects upon himself and his decisions in life. He often refers to his,” Place”, where he goes to sort of meditate and become one with nature. He describes his Place as, “That is my place , the place everyone needs.I was compelled to go and sit inside there and hear the little waves slap the…

Knock Life There is always that one person at work or school who is always complaining about how hard life is and how work sucks, but no one understands those troubles more than people in the '30s who suffered through the Great Depression. John Steinbeck has captured the life of these people through many of his novels, including one of his more popular works, Of Mice and Men. The novella features men from all different paths of life who are or were migrant workers searching for work and trying…

of physical labor you can do while working on the ranch John Steinbeck introduces us one of the characters Candy, who is a disabled older worker on the ranch who appears to be fine but the reader realizes he is lonely and feels useless on the ranch. Candy is one of the loneliest workers on the ranch and his best friend and probably only true friend was his dog that was shot by another worker. The reason Candy is described by Steinbeck is because he feels the need not leave out someone just…