Analysis of Grapes of Wrath & Of Mice & Men
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John Steinbeck is a writer noted for his characterizations and for his social consciousness as expressed in novels and stories about the poor and downtrodden, about labor problems, and especially about California and the migrant workers who helped shape that state in the 1930s. Of Mice and Men is one of his more popular novels, a short work about two migrant workers who travel from farm to farm doing whatever work is required. One is an amiable man who fears being alone, and the other is a mentally retarded man who does not always understand what is happening around him and who relies heavily on his friend for support. Lennie is the child-man who does not know his own strength, and George is the man who oversees what the other man does and who takes responsibility for Lennie beyond what would normally be expected. The style of this short work reflects some of Steinbeck=s usual methods as well as being somewhat different from much of his work in terms of the use of language and the way he characterizes different individuals and actions in the work. Differences can be seen between Of Mice and Men and a much broader work such as The Grapes of Wrath.These two works were written in the late 1930s (1937 for Of Mice and Men and 1939 for The Grapes of Wrath). Both stories have a connection to the Great Depression, for in each the poor and downtrodden characters are adrift on the American landscape because the Depression has created a situation where they have to move from p
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avoids external commentary and lets the action unfold on its own. The characters reveal their psychological attitudes through their actions and their spoken words and not through an analysis offered by the author.
The style of this novel is Naturalism, and the script-like aspect of the novel was not lost on the readers of the time in that the work was soon used as a stage script and has been many times since. The piece unfolds as a series of scenes in which, as noted, the characters speak for themselves in action and words to a greater extent than is usual in a novel. The Grapes of Wrath also contains naturalistic elements, but the style is different in that the author develops a way to comment on the action through inter-chapters, chapters that have nothing directly to do with the narrative except to comment on aspects of the social scene, the economy, and related matters.
In the era of the Great Depression, one of the problems affecting the country was the drought in the mid-West, and many people. like the Joads, fled from its effects and sought a better life in California. The people who moved West in this migration were escaping from the heartland of America and seeking the American Dream in a new place, in the golde
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