Of mice and men is a story written by John Steinbeck. This story was first published when the "Great Depression" was nearly ending. This was supposed to be a play but turnd out to be a novella. A novella is a small novel.This novella was first published in Great Britain in 1937. In this book there are seven main charachters: George, Lennie, Slim, Candy, Crooks, Curley and Curley's wife. the ... minor charachters are: Boss, Whit and Carlson. It is very obvious that all of these people have dreams. These dreams are shown in this novella as incompleted for everyone. George and Lennie's dream is ...

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• Grade Level: High School