Of Mice And Men 1930s Analysis

Society has never been perfect, and it never will be, however most people have certainly tried to make the world a better place. Dr. Hannon is a person who works with hoarders to help them let go of all their strange collections that do not help the hoarder in any way. However, society in the 1930s was not the same, and people were not as ready to help others as they are now. The American Society in the 1930s was intolerant to difference because people were not ready to help people who weren’t the same as them.

In John Steinbeck’s novella Of Mice and Men in the setting of Salinas Valley, California in the 1930s, we meet the static character Lennie Smalls and his best friend George. While Steinbeck never outright says that Lennie has any sort of disability, it is obvious to the reader through his actions. One of the people that has something bad happen to

Again, his anger and inability to control himself got the best of him when Curley started to fight Lennie in a bunkhouse. Lennie, cowering in the corner, was doing nothing to deflect or counter any of Curley’s punches. He kept yelling for George to help get Curley off of him. “Make ‘um let me alone, George”(Steinbeck, 63) This shows that Lennie clearly relies more on George than he does on himself, which is common in almost all children because they don’t know how to do most things. After repeated encouragement from George to “Get ‘im” he stands up and catches Curley’s fist, crushing it in the process. However, even after George repeatedly slapped him in the face and told him to let go, Lennie would not release his grip on Curley’s fist. “George slapped him in the face again, and again, and Lennie still held on.”(Steinbeck, 63”) This shows that Lennie clearly doesn’t always realize when he’s doing something wrong. This is also a common characteristic of small children, and it shows that Lennie somewhat has the mind of a