OF MICE AND MEN Of Mice and Men, by John Steinbeck, is a story which shows how weak the human trait of loyalty can be if put through the test of time. ... Of mice and men is a novel about two men, George Milton and Lennie Small, who go to work on a ranch in California together. Lennie is a massive man with incredible strength but has a child's mind. George is a fairly sized man who is not incredibly brilliant but has good common sense. ... CLIMAX AND RESOLUTION FROM THE CONFLICTS Man against Man: This clearly fits how George feels about Lennie and how he struggles between being a goo...

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• Grade Level: High School

In Steinbeck's Of Mice and Men, isolation, despair and destruction pervade in relation to the characters Curley's wife and Crooks. ... All the characters in Steinbeck's Of 2/ "Isolation, despair and destruction pervade Steinbeck's Of Mice and Men." ... Crooks is the character filled with the greatest sense of despair within Steinbeck's Of Mice and Men. Crooks has lost all hope and accepts the fact that he is the lowest man on the totem pole at the ranch. ... Lennie is rare, because though he is a white man, he is still weaker than Crooks, and Crooks takes the opport...

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• Grade Level: High School

Isolation in Of Mice and Men To be isolated is to be separated from other persons or things according to The Random House College Dictionary Revised Edition. ... John Steinbeck's novel Of Mice and Men is a story consumed in isolation and all of the characters portray this in their own unique way. ... Crooks, the only black man on the ranch, points this out when he states "Sometimes [George] talks, and you don't know what the hell he's talkin' about- (Steinbeck 70-71). ... Crooks, being black, is not allowed in any white man's bunkhouse, and must live a solitary...

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• Has Bibliography
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The novel Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck takes place during the Great Depression, and begins besides the Salinas River near Soledad, California. ... George is described as a small man with sharp features, which explains Lennie's comparison to both a dog and a bear when it comes to his appearance. ... The reader is introduced to a few more pivotal characters: a man named Carlson who works on the ranch and owns his very own luger, a simple old man, missing his right hand by the name of Candy who also works on the ranch, and his dog, who has no name at all. ... Steinbeck's Of Mice an...

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• Approx Pages: 5
• Grade Level: High School