John Steinbeck Unemployment

In the novel „Of Mice and Men” John Steinbeck describes the American world of the working class, as the world of loneliness, unhapiness and brutality. Regarding to the economical situation during the 1930s, the low workers had to face up to the problem of the unemployment, which led to the personal frustration and the social assimilation. Steinbeck was from California, living in a small village and working on nearby ranches, he was spending his time with blue-collar workers since childhood. Because of that, he caterogically criticized the Capitalism System and did not trust mass movement politics. This 'mass movement politics' or in other words, the Communism System was also criticised by Marek Hłasko, a polish writer of the young generation