... long enough to firm any real relationships, so this was a very lonely existence. John Steinbeck uses a fairly journalistic style of writing to describe the ranch, and this adds a touch of realism to the story. The characters and places he creates seem real, and he uses real places to mark the general area that the story is set in, the Salinas river ... , for example. The characters all speak in a 1930's American style, like in chapter one when George says to Lennie We ain't got any' and An' watta I got?'. This adds further realism to the characters. I feel that Steinbeck describes the lo...

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... are a Steinbecken trilogy of naturalistic philosophy. The term naturalism describes a type of literature that attempts to apply scientific principles of objectivity and detachment to its study of human beings. Unlike realism, which focuses on literary technique, naturalism implies a philosophical position: for naturalistic writers, since human beings are characters which can be studied through their relationships to their surroundings. Through this objective ... ...

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