Comparison Of John Steinbeck's Of Mice And Men

Of Mice and Men is a story about the failure of the American dream.The main characters' troubles can be compared to those of mice, which explains the title. Robert Burns' poem, "To a Mouse" also can help to clarify the title. It contains the quotation: "The best laid schemes o' Mice an' Men, Gang aft agley" ("often go awry"). In fact, this quote is the reason John Steinbeck chose Of Mice and Men as the title. There is more that Burns poem has in common with Of Mice and Men aside from the relation between the title and the quote. The two works both include relationships between humans and animals. In To a Mouse, a field worker upsets a mouse's nest and then reflects on it. This is similar to Steinbeck's novel, in which Lennie unintentionally