- Author: John Steinbeck
- Year: 1937
- Famous for: Bunnies, an “interesting” perspective on women, a horrible, tragic ending.
- Main character: George, a migrant worker with dreams of a better life; Lennie, George’s mentally-disabled friend.
The Golden State. Such a cruel tease. Of Mice and Men, by John Steinbeck, presents depression-era California as a sucker’s bet, a place luring decent, simple folk with the promise of limitless potential and prosperity, then knocking them flat with the reality of unending toil and trouble. Decent, simple folk like George and Lennie, the two migrant workers whose story Steinbeck tells in Of Mice and Men.
In Steinbeck’s slender masterpiece, George and Lennie endure just about every depression-era hardship a migrant worker might endure. Of Mice and Men follows George and Lennie to a bad end, which is what we’d expect for simple, decent folk in the hardscrabble West. But Steinbeck’s saga is true to the spirit of the times and people he depicts. George and Lennie live and die hard in Of Mice and Men. So did many thousands like them.
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