... of nowhere without any other women and no one to talk to, and what she could have become is she hadn't married Curley. When she first walks into Crooks" shed with Candy, Lennie and Crooks inside, she is annoyed by the fact that no one will talk to her. She questions ... them about this, asking them if they "Think I don't like to talk to somebody ever" once in a while?" (p 77), which once again raises the issue of loneliness, and triggers the reader's social consciousness. This also manipulates the reader ... you" (pp 15-16). Right from the start the reader's attention is drawn to their...

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... to Uncle Tom's Cabin. 8. The author of a website attempts to challenge and disprove a review of Steinbeck's work. The reviewer discusses the region where most of Steinbeck's novels are centered. The reviewer also believes that many of Steinbeck's novels are devoid of social content (Mice and Men, The Wayward Bus, and The Pearl). 9. Americans have visited and revisited the very questions Steinbeck raised in the 1930's and "40s: homelessness ... , migration, poverty, moral responsibility, the straightjacket of respectability, the underside of the American dream, and the human's necessary c...

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