Consequently, he presents men who are poor as having modest aspirations, a simple dream of having a small farm of their own where they could live in dignity and be self-reliant and not at the mercy ofbosseswho could be unfair or mean. Importantly, his observations were filtered through the lens of his socialist beliefs about the unfortunate predicament of the working class in the capitalist socio-economic system and what he believes working class people want in life to find happiness. The book was based on Steinbeck’s observations of working-class life among agricultural labourers in the locality where he lived and worked as a young man. John Steinbeck’s Of Mice and Men (1937) is a novel that looks sympathetically at the predicament of men who are working class and poor in rural California during the Great Depression.
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