Comparing The Great Depression In Steinbeck's Of Mice And Men

The Great Depression was an economic downturn that left most of America crippled againsts its wraith. Although, in every cave there's a glimmer of hope. The Great Depression is known as America’s greatest collapse but out of this derailment came experiences and new way of oeuvre, John Steinbeck's, Of Mice and Men displayed how the Great Depression affected the characters in the book. The characters affected by the alienation from government aid and loneliness caused by the stresses of everyday challenges from race to mental intellect. To illustrate the background of the Great Depression the secondary source and prior knowledge voices that horrors and tragedies everyday people faced during the it. The U.S. government had abandoned all of the citizens leaving them to fend for themselves. Herbert Hoover who was president at the start of the depression had a laissez-faire policy which is abstention by governments from interfering in the workings of the free market. This policy would had ultimately lead to the Stock Market Crash of 1929. The crash lead to a ruination of the government which meant the citizens were no longer going to receive welfare or bonus promises. The Bonus Army which was a group of World War One veterans who were promised a bonus after coming back from the war had to march and protest in front of the riots. They were eventually thrown out and this action showed everyone how the government would handle citizens asking for extra
The life of the itinerant workers, George and Lennie, start off in Soledad, California, a town name that means "solitude" in Spanish unable to get a fixed job because of the The Great Depression they’re emotions start to take the best of them. [As cited in Novels for Students. Ed. Diane