Text Response: Of Mice And Men By John Steinbeck

Text Response- Of Mice and Men
The 1937 novella of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck engrossed the audience with the plot providing great detail. The author portrays a realistic story about the Great Depression in America during the 1930s and the effects it had on the farm workers and the issues they experienced. Steinbeck employs many narrative techniques with meticulous care. The author uses many examples of foreshadowing and symbolism in the text. A considerable measure of anticipation can be felt while perusing the text, as the audience awaits the unavoidable future foreshadowed through the character’s speech or their doings and other literary features of the novel such as colloquial language and animal imagery. John Steinbeck success relies
Throughout the novella there are many times when foreshadowing is used. Steinbeck successfully engages his readers into thinking if something that is said or done by a character will be foreshadowed or not in the text later on. As the readers should know Lennie was given silk velvet by his aunt Clara and he has enjoyed feeling soft things. An incident that happened in Weed, a place were George and Lennie worked, which had foreshadowed in future events. In Weed Lennie started adoring a dress that a girl was wearing and really wanted to feel it and as soon as he started touching the dress, (page 47) “the girl lets out a squawk, and that gets Lennie all mixed up, and he holds on ’cause that's the only thing he can think to do.” Then after when Lennie accidentally kills a mouse then later is foreshadowed when Lennie has accidentally killed the puppy and after that too when Lennie accidentally kills Curley's wife, Lennie feels Candy’s wife's hair and when he tries to take the hand out of her hair his bing hands get stuck and as Curley’s wife starts to scream Lennie get frightened and when he gets frightened he holds on very tightly, (page 103) ‘“Don't you go yellin’,” he said, and he shook her; and her body flopped like a fish. And then she was still, for Lennie had broken her neck.’ Another example of foreshadowing is when, (page 34) “Both men glanced up, for the rectangle of
Lennie has a large connection with mice and rabbits, Lennie is innocent as are the rabbits and mice too. Just like animals Lennie can not be socialised because he is considered as a pest towards the society, Lennie was once said by George (page 14), “Jesus Christ, somebody’d shoot you for a coyote if you was by yourself”, the perusers are being told that Lennie is considered like a coyote by a stranger, because of the incident in Weed he is considered a pest just like coyotes are. (Page 10), “Slowly like a terrier who doesn't want to bring a ball to its master, Lennie approached, drew back, approached again.” Terriers are very loyal and good workers, Lennie is also very loyal to George, George is portrayed as the master of Lennie, we read about George talking to Slim about what Lennie can do for George and we find out that once tells Lennie to jump in the river, “An’ he jumps in. Couldn't swim a stroke. He damn near drowned before we could get him. An’ he was so damn nice to me for pullin’ him out”, this shows the readers the unconditional love Lennie has for George. John Steinbeck captures the readers attention and allows them to understand the concept of the imagery