... Of Mice and Men is heartless if the range of the word human is understood to synchronize with the range this far established by fiction (Doren). "Two of them are evil, one of them is dangerous without meaning to be, and all of them are ignorant-all of them, that is, except the one who shall be named hereafter (Doren)." The characters are not close to knowing the grammar of ... conduct; they do not even know its orthography (Doren). No two thoughts of the characters are sequential, nor do ... became the subject of Steinbeck's Of Mice and Men: broken men who wandered the countryside look...

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... and 40s and created the political impetus for the welfare state of later decades. The Great Depression struck California hard, just as it did countless other states and nations. It also helped remake California, writes Kevin Starr in the fourth instalment of his multi-volume history of the state. "The Depression brought a massive influx of hopeful refugees to California from elsewhere in the United States, including 300,000 new agricultural workers--the people of John Steinbeck's Grapes of Wrath ... only a moment the mutual commitment of George and Lennie has made the other characters t...

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