The Role Of Migrant Workers In John Steinbeck's Of Mice And Men

This week we began reading Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck, because this book takes place in the 1930's during the great depression we also began reading about that. It began in October 1929 when the Stock market crashed and a majority of people lost their jobs. Because so many people were losing their jobs, they had no way to make money so the became migrant workers. Migrant workers are people who travel around the country trying to get whatever work they can because there was none where they were. The two main characters, George and Lennie, in this novel are migrant workers. They went to work on a ranch miles away to make money to save up for their own ranch. Most migrant workers would travel alone but George and Lennie stayed together