Life in the 1930s was very difficult. Electricity did not arrive in until the early 1930s. The rest of the towns and cities depended on paraffin lamps and candles for lighting their homes. The lamps were either hung from the ceiling, which gave more light, or used as table lamps that could be moved from room to room. Candles were used in the bedrooms but one had to be careful not to knock them over and to be sure to blow them out before going to sleep because of the fire risk. A range was standard equipment for heating and cooking in every home. The oven was on one side of the open fire and the boiler for water heating on the other. A steel rack hung over the top of the range so that the kettle could be hung over the fire from a pot-hook. The boiler took two buckets of water and someone to keep topping it up to prevent it drying out and cracking. You could toast your bread on a toasting fork in front of the fire.
This connects to the story Of Mice and Men through the way of homeless and unemployment. George and Lennie search for a job to get money that will help them live a better life. They go from place to place searching for employment. It truly shows the struggle of men looking for jobs and what the jobs consist of when they get them. I believe that John Steinbeck's view of the 1930s through the book Of Mice and Men was accurate to the real life of the Great Depression. People were searching for jobs and moving from place to place just like George and Lennie. Of Mice and Men is based upon the lonely lives of wandering ranchers in the 1930s.
nd the depression that outspread in its stir saw an explosion of unemployment. The struggle of the unemployed became a major factor in the political and social like of the decade. This cause sent many people homeless and without jobs and work, numerous citizens had no choice but to live their lives on the st
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