Of Mice and Men
...st novel, Cup of Gold. During the decade of the 1930’s Steinbeck wrote most of his best California fictions: The Pastures of Heaven, To a God Unknown, The Long Valley, Tortilla Flat, In Dubious Battle, Of Mice and Men, and the Grapes of Wrath. Steinbeck married in 1930 to a girl named Carol Henning. She helped him write a lot of his novels. In 1943 he divorced the loyal but volatile Carol. He remarried again in 1950 to Elaine Scott. This was his final wife. I read the book Of Mice and Men. A story about shattered dreams becomes Steinbeck’s first big success. Steinbeck adapted it also into a three act play, which was produced in 1937. George Milton and Lennie Small, Two ranch-hands, dream of one day owning their own farm. George acts as a father figure to Lenny, Who is large and simpleminded. Lenny loves all that is soft, but his immense physical strength is a source of troubles and George is needed to calm him. The two friends find work from a farm and starts saving money for their future. Annoyed by the bullying foremen of the ranch, Lenny breaks his arm, but also wakes the interest of the ranch owner’s flirtatious daughter- in- law. Lenny accidentally kills her and escapes into the hiding place, that he and George have agrees to use. George hurries after Lenny and shoots him before he is captures by a vengeful mob, but at t...