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Transcript of Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck Born on February 27, 1902 in Salinas, California. Attended...
• Born on February 27, 1902 in Salinas, California.
• Attended Stanford, but did not graduate from there.
• 1936 Of Mice and Men published. Setting is Soledad, California
• 1939 published The Grapes of Wrath, which won a Pulitzer Prize.
• Died on December 20, 1968, as one of the most honored writers of his time.
•All of his novels deal with a personal experience.
•He advocated the need for humans and nature to be in partnership.
•His characters are the outcasts of society: poor, demented, uneducated and rebellious.
Of Mice and Men The Novel and Characters
“The economic upheavals of the 1930’s produced a rootlessness in Americans who found themselves without possessions or hope. Of Mice and Men, is, in part, an examination of this peculiarly American kind of Alienation.”
Ranch hand
Exact opposite of Slim
Coarse and insensitive
Unable to understand the feelings of others
Got his name because of his crooked, hunchback body
Proud and independent Negro
An outcast at the ranch
bitter against racial discrimination
Accepted by Lennie and Candy
Small, evil son of the boss
Wears a glove on one hand
Vicious bully who picks on people smaller than him
Tries to intimidate men bigger than him