Of Mice And Men by John Steinbeck (Book Review and Summary)
Of Mice and Men is a book published in 1937 by the American Author John Steinbeck. One of the shortest novels I've read, 'Of Mice and Men' is a creation which has been able to integrate a lot of the social culture of the post-Civil War America with its take on the freed African Americans from slavery. This is not the center piece of the story though. 'Of Mice and Men' and portrays concisely the relationship of two individuals George and Lennie who are opposites in their temperance but however are thrown together in the hopes of achieving the so called 'American Dream'. George, the smarter of the two basks in adoration of Lennie who is portrayed as someone who isn't bright and is good at following orders but not making actual decisions. Therefore, it is George who actually does the thinking for the both of them. We first see them on their way to a new job. With the conversations between the two we learn that they had to run away from their pre...