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    A Study Guide (New Edition) for John Steinbeck's "Of Mice and Men"
    A Study Guide (New Edition) for John Steinbeck's "Of Mice and Men"
    A Study Guide (New Edition) for John Steinbeck's "Of Mice and Men"
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    A Study Guide (New Edition) for John Steinbeck's "Of Mice and Men"

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    A Study Guide (New Edition) for John Steinbeck's "Of Mice and Men", excerpted from Gale's acclaimed Novels for Students. This concise study guide includes plot summary; character analysis; author biography; study questions; historical context; suggestions for further reading; and much more. For any literature project, trust Novels for Students for all of your research needs."
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherCengage Learning - Gale
    Release dateFeb 15, 2019
    ISBN9780028666402
    A Study Guide (New Edition) for John Steinbeck's "Of Mice and Men"

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      A Study Guide (New Edition) for John Steinbeck's "Of Mice and Men" - Gale

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      Of Mice and Men

      John Steinbeck

      1937

      Introduction

      Of Mice and Men (1937), a sort of play-novelette, is one of the most widely read and most highly esteemed works by Nobel Prize winner John Steinbeck. Raised in California's Salinas Valley, Steinbeck gained appreciation and sympathy for the laboring classes by involving himself in field and factory work during his early years as a writer. In seeking literary success through the lean commercial times of the Great Depression, he captured the public's attention by delving into what would prove—in part through his fictionalizations—one of the most emblematic settings of the era, the California farms and fields that became the destinations of so many impoverished families and workers migrating west from the agricultural and financial devastation of the dust bowl.

      There is a timeless quality, however, to Of Mice and Men, which is set on a ranch near the Salinas River but suggests a period prior to the Great Depression, with no signs of widespread societal upheaval. Steinbeck wrote the story in the 1930s but based it on experiences he had had as a migrant laborer back in 1922. The story concerns George and Lennie, inseparable companions, with George needing to look carefully after the well-being of the developmentally disabled but physically imposing Lennie. Whether they might overcome Lennie's challenges to achieve their dream of self-sufficiency on a farm of their own—living "off the fatta the lan', as Lennie loves to imagine—is an open question, especially when converging elements of their new employment seem to be tempting fate. In the end, George will have to decide just what to do about Lennie. The novel's title is taken from the Scotsman Robert Burns's poem To a Mouse, on Turning Her Up in Her Nest with the Plough, November, 1785, which declares that the best-laid schemes o' Mice an' Men / Gang aft agley"—go oft awry, leaving only grief and pain in the place of promised joy.

      Author Biography

      John Ernst Steinbeck was born on February 27, 1902, in Salinas, California, as the third of four children and only boy of a schoolteacher, Olive, and a county treasurer, John. With Salinas being a market center in the state's most fertile valley, Steinbeck grew up surrounded by farming folks and beholden to the natural world around him. The Gabilan Mountains, to the east, struck him as peaceful and inviting, while the Saint Lucia Mountains to the west filled him with foreboding. His fondest memories would be of such things as where toads could be found hiding, when the birds started chirping on summer mornings, the way the sparrows hopped about the street, what the seasons smelled like, and how his pony once gave birth to a colt.

      With ample literature to be found around the house thanks to his mother's profession, Steinbeck became very well read and by high school was determined to become a writer. Attending Sunday School through the Episcopal Church, his

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