Bully In Of Mice And Men
In the novella Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck, Steinbeck uses the poem “To a Mouse” by Robert Burns as a foundation for the book.
Steinbeck illustrates the theme “the impossibility of the American dream” through characters on the ranch. George and Lennie have a dream of owning a farm and believe that with hard work, they will successfully own that dream farm. Lennie in particular plans to tend rabbits on this future farms. However, early on, the novella it reveals the dream of having a farm will soon fade away when “the sat as quietly as the little gray, sculptured stones… the sound of footsteps [came]... the rabbits hurried noiselessly for cover,” (Steinback 2). The flee of the rabbits reveals that the rabbit dream will become a distant …show more content…
Curley is a bully that uses his power to keep others below him because he is small and insecure. Although Curley is a fighter he has glove, “fulla Vaseline,” (steinback 27). To mask that insecurity Curley must appear strong threaten others because his father is the boss of the ranch. With this power, Curley keeps the other men below him. Curley does seems like fighter but he is insecure about pleasing his wife. Crooks is a black stable man with a back that is crooked. However when he is given power just for a second he abuses, “‘I said s’pose George went into town tonight and you never heard of him no more.’ Crooks pressed on for a private victory,” (Steinback 71). Crooks wants to be better but he does not realize torturing others does not get one things in life. Men perform their actions for their own benefit. The narrator in “To a Mouse” recognizes that and apologized for “man’s domination has broken Nature’s social union,” (Burns 7-8). The harmony that has been broken between not only nature and men, but men with each other makes other distrustful. With that distrust, men make each other suffer. Like how mice in the poem are suffering because they are “inferior”. Like the men must make the inferior suffer but, “What then? Poor little beast, you must live,” (Burns 13-15). This represents that the men must beat each other up and have their own role to survive on the ranch. All the men suffer but fail to comfort each other. The men fail to recognize that they are not alone. Fortunately for the mouse, it lives in the present but men must suffer. Men live in the dreadful past and fearful future. With the predatory nature of men, men may ot learn to know how to comfort one another, even the
Steinbeck illustrates the theme “the impossibility of the American dream” through characters on the ranch. George and Lennie have a dream of owning a farm and believe that with hard work, they will successfully own that dream farm. Lennie in particular plans to tend rabbits on this future farms. However, early on, the novella it reveals the dream of having a farm will soon fade away when “the sat as quietly as the little gray, sculptured stones… the sound of footsteps [came]... the rabbits hurried noiselessly for cover,” (Steinback 2). The flee of the rabbits reveals that the rabbit dream will become a distant …show more content…
Curley is a bully that uses his power to keep others below him because he is small and insecure. Although Curley is a fighter he has glove, “fulla Vaseline,” (steinback 27). To mask that insecurity Curley must appear strong threaten others because his father is the boss of the ranch. With this power, Curley keeps the other men below him. Curley does seems like fighter but he is insecure about pleasing his wife. Crooks is a black stable man with a back that is crooked. However when he is given power just for a second he abuses, “‘I said s’pose George went into town tonight and you never heard of him no more.’ Crooks pressed on for a private victory,” (Steinback 71). Crooks wants to be better but he does not realize torturing others does not get one things in life. Men perform their actions for their own benefit. The narrator in “To a Mouse” recognizes that and apologized for “man’s domination has broken Nature’s social union,” (Burns 7-8). The harmony that has been broken between not only nature and men, but men with each other makes other distrustful. With that distrust, men make each other suffer. Like how mice in the poem are suffering because they are “inferior”. Like the men must make the inferior suffer but, “What then? Poor little beast, you must live,” (Burns 13-15). This represents that the men must beat each other up and have their own role to survive on the ranch. All the men suffer but fail to comfort each other. The men fail to recognize that they are not alone. Fortunately for the mouse, it lives in the present but men must suffer. Men live in the dreadful past and fearful future. With the predatory nature of men, men may ot learn to know how to comfort one another, even the