How Does Steinbeck Use Narrative Techniques In Of Mice And Men

Of Mice and Men is a fictional book written by John Steinbeck. This story is told from the point of view of a third-person narrator. John Steinbeck’s Of Mice and Men is a simple story about what it means to be human. This book is about two protagonists named George and Lennie trying to get a little house to live off “the fad of the land”.However, Lennie stupidness is a mental challenge for George. Curly, the bosses son, is the physical challenge for George. To make the book powerful, he uses many narrative techniques. Some of them are being very descriptive literally and figuratively, the foreshadowing in the book, and the conflicts that George and Lennie face mentally and physically. Steinbeck makes background scenes and actions very clear with the details that he puts into it. He uses literal descriptive techniques and figurative descriptive techniques. A straightforward examples in the book is: “Lennie dabbled his big paw in the water and wiggled his fingers so the water arose in little splashes; rings widened across the pool o the other side and came back again. Lennie watched them go. "Look, George. Look what I done." (1.9). The straightforward words that Steinbeck uses are "wiggled" and "splashes". Slims description, however, is

The main conflict mentally is George trying to handle Lennie and his stupidness. Lennie gets in trouble a lot, and George has to bail him out every time. This is making a mental conflict whether he should keep him or just leave Lennie to “go in a cave”. It looks like the two major physically conflicts in the book are Curly being against Lennie and George and Lennie both against society. George and Lennie seem to be in a place where they just cant fit in. Like the ranchers at the time, George and Lennie would find a job to work in, make enough money to go on, and then leave. But George and Lennie wanted something different; they wanted a place to call their