Merry Men

be answered very simply, or never be answered within the work. “Of Mice and Men” by John Steinbeck , “Paul’s Case” by Willa Cather, and “Mending Wall” by Robert Frost, all raised the central question, “In what way does uncontrollable factors affect how one lives their everyday life?” Although each of these beautifully written works answer the question differently, they all have something in common. “Of Mice and Men” by John Steinbeck, is a very well written book, with a very deep theme.…

Rosamond is a strong heroine, a well-developed character. She is adventurous and feisty, intelligent and thoughtful, naïve and afraid. Alcott did not make her a passive heroine dependent on men rescuing her. She made her an independent woman determined to escape and begin anew. The other characters are not quite as developed and are not given as much depth. Tempest is depicted as sly and manipulating from the beginning. He is the epitome…

There are so many themes, symbols, and motifs in the story “Of Mice and Men”, written by John Steinbeck. Although, the one that stood out to me was the motif of strengths and weaknesses. These are things that people are very familiar with and can relate to because we all have some of our own. Sometimes we do not even realize what they are, but when people read about other’s strengths and weaknesses it opens their eyes. And when people feel they can relate to the story or even with certain…

In Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck, a character named George makes a big decision. George and Lennie, two companions in a business of lonely people, only have each other in California in the 1930’s, working as ranch hands. George looks after Lennie because he 's mentally disabled. After an incident that would get Lennie tortured, George has to make the painful decision to shoot Lennie in order to save him from the torture that would have awaited him. This decision can be called a moral choice,…

Lennie’s death, much like that of a dog, was very merciful. In John Steinbeck’s Of Mice and Men, Lennie’s death is foreshadowed long before it actually takes place; based on the mercy killing of Candy’s dog, the death of a water snake from the beginning of the book, and the secret bushes being set as a hiding place in case Lennie did anything wrong. The mercy killing of Candy’s dog foreshadowed Lennie’s death. Lennie and Candy’s dog have many similar qualities. “I been around him so much I…

The depiction of women in the novel “Of Mice and Men”, is far from being flattering. Steinbeck has, in this novel, only one female character, Curley 's wife, and as we can see, she didn 't even has a first name. The other women in the novel are referred as prostitutes, with the exception of Lennie 's aunt Clara, who seems to be a housewife. These images could be interpreted as misogynist in our time, but putting those images in the context of the 30 's in the United States, we can see the will…

which places are presented by Steinbeck in Of Mice and Men A place is a particular point, space or location. A question frequently wondered in literature is how these certain places, these inconsequential areas of the Earth’s crust, have the power to influence our outlook on them; why do these insignificant places have the capability to remind us of a particular moment or person? Considered Steinbeck’s finest piece of literary work, Of Mice and Men uses the abominable truths of what life was…

In 1930s America, during the time of The Great Depression, a man called John Steinbeck wrote a novel entitled ‘Of Mice and Men’. This novel was loosely based around the ‘American Dream’ which struck for change within society at that time. The American Dream, is the suggestion that everyone would be treated equally within the community and also around the basis that if you are to work hard enough, you will achieve success. Steinbeck included a character within his novel named ‘Candy’. Candy isn’t…

long list. However, as we take each step towards maturity and adulthood, those dreams are being tampered one by one, leaving us all with one question: “What is it that we truly want to be or have realistically in the future?” In the story, Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck, the author recapitulates an allegory of the main…

In John Steinbeck’s seminal novel Of Mice and Men, the nomadic farmworker George laments about finding work in the Great Depression, saying, “Guys like us…are the loneliest guys in the world. They got no family. They don 't belong no place…They ain 't got nothing to look ahead to.” This somber reflection of the era conveys the hopelessness that afflicted millions in this country. Even President Roosevelt, lauded as America’s savior, did little more than put a dent in unemployment numbers that…