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Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck

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Author Biography

Name: John Ernst Steinbeck
Birth Date: February 27, 1902
Death Date: December 20, 1968
Place of Birth: Salinas, California, United States
Place of Death: New York, New York, United States
Nationality: American
Gender: Male
Occupations: writer

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Biography of John Ernst Steinbeck
800 words, approx. 2.7 pages
John Ernst Steinbeck (1902-1968), American author and winner of the Nobel Prize in 1962, was a leading exponent of the proletarian novel and a prominent spokesman for the victims of the Great Depression. John Steinbeck was born on Feb. 27, 1902, in Salin...
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Biography of John Ernst Steinbeck
17621 words, approx. 58.7 pages
Through a career which spanned four decades, John Steinbeck was a novelist of people. His best books are about ordinary men and women, simple souls who do battle against dehumanizing social forces or who struggle against their own inhumane tendencies and...
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Biography of John (Ernst) Steinbeck
16102 words, approx. 53.7 pages
Throughout a career which spanned four decades, John Steinbeck was a novelist of people. His best books are about ordinary men and women, simple souls who do battle against dehumanizing social forces or who struggle against their own inhumane tendencies...
 


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Of Mice and Men Summary
4,419 words, approx. 15 pages
Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck A young John Steinbeck learned about bindlestiffs-single migrant laborers, generally white men, recruited to work during harvest season-through his own experience on a company-owned ranch. Recognizing the frustration...
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Of Mice and Men Information
2,355 words, approx. 8 pages
<i>Of Mice and Men</i> is a novella by Nobel Prize winning author John Steinbeck, published in 1937, which tells the tragic story of George Milton and Lennie Small, two displaced Anglo migrant ranch workers in California during the Great Depression....


News and Journals
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Eclectic plays conclude Stratford season
8/20/2007: 1,210 words, approx. 4 pages
From Edward Albee to John Steinbeck. From Derek Walcott to Oscar Wilde. Then add David Edgar for good measure. Summer may be winding down, but the Stratford Festival of Canada isn't.The repertory theater, with 14 shows now on view, has opened a final, eclectic batch...
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Cattelan, Maurizio
12/31/2006: 475 words, approx. 2 pages
With Italian conceptual artist Maurizio Cattelan serving as one of its curators, the fourth Berlin biennial, "Of Mice and Men," which opened in March 2006, aroused much curiosity. Cattelan was, after all, known for subversive, prankish displays, including a locked gallery with a "back soon"...
 


Criticism and Essays
Literary Criticism
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Critical Essay by Joseph Fontenrose
4,569 words, approx. 15 pages
In the fall of 1937, while returning from New York and Pennsylvania, where he had worked on the stage version of Of Mice and Men, Steinbeck drove through Oklahoma, joined migrants who were going west, and worked with them in the fields after they reached California. The Grapes of Wrath is thus a product of his own experience and direct observation; its realism is genuine. (p. 68) [The] story ends in medias res. Some readers have objected to the closing scene, in which the young mother who lost her child suc...
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Critical Essay by William Goldhurst
2,536 words, approx. 9 pages
Of Mice and Men is a short novel in six scenes presented in description-dialogue-action form that approximates stage drama in its effect…. The time scheme runs from Thursday evening through Sunday evening—exactly three days in sequence, a matter of some importance, as we shall see presently. The setting is the Salinas Valley in California, and most of the characters are unskilled migratory workers who drift about the villages and ranches of that area picking up odd jobs or doing short-term fie...
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Critical Essay by Mark Spilka
2,129 words, approx. 7 pages
A minor classic of proletarian conflict, Of Mice and Men was written in 1937, first as a novel, then as a play…. The sycamore grove by the Salinas River, so lovingly described in the opening lines, is more than scene-setting: it is an attempt to evoke the sense of freedom in nature which, for a moment only, the protagonists will enjoy. By a path worn hard by boys and hobos two migrant laborers appear. The first man is mouse-like…. He is the planner from the poem by Robert Burns: as with other ...
 
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Essay Grade: 96%
Of Mice and Men: Book v. Film
7,823 words, approx. 26 pages
This essay compares the film and book versions of John Steinbeck's classic story Of Mice and Men. It shows how film director Gary Sinise modifies the book for his film without losing the essence and meaning of the original story. It includes a discussion of the music, lighting, costumes and casting for the film.
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Essay Grade: 88%
The Life of a Great Depression Migrant Worker
5,333 words, approx. 18 pages
This is a creative type of analysis essay based on "Of Mice and Men" by John Steinbeck. It includes journal entries of a fictional character based from "Of Mice and Men."
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Essay Grade: 84%
"Of Mice and Men" by John Steinbeck
3,968 words, approx. 13 pages
Explores the themes of loneliness and the concept of the American Dream in "Of Mice and Men" written by John Steinbeck. Also discusses the main characters of Candy, Curley's Wife, Lennie, and George.
 


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