... homeless, the migrant workers, the poor fishermen, and the farmers. However, each of these people has a deceptively simple, but important story to tell, a story filled with love and pain. The stories tell us not only of the lives of the poor who seek to live off the land ... of solitaire. George's plans can never take form because the probabilities at work against them is a complex system, encapsulating more variables than Nature itself. Steinbeck said Lennie represents "the inarticulate and powerful yearning of all men," and referred to its scene as a microcosm, making it ... is again p...

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• Grade Level: High School