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Symbols are objects, characters, figures, and colors used to represent abstract ideas or concepts. George and Lennie’s Farm The farm that George constantly describes to Lennie—those few acres of land on which they will grow their own food and tend their own livestock—is one of the most powerful symbols in the book.
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Of Mice and Men Symbolism, Imagery, Allegory. Back. More. Characters as Archetypes. (Click the symbolism infographic to download.) While Of Mice and Men occurs in a very specific time and place, each of the characters can be thought of as symbolizing broader populations.
In Of Mice and Men, Steinbeck uses his characters, locations, animal imagery, and a simple game of cards to demonstrate to his readers that most people dream about lives of great significance. But in reality, most humans' limitations keep these dreams from coming true, and in the long run, they are destined to experience common lives.
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- Figurative Languages
- Analysis of Symbols
Fugitive
The story‘Of Mice and Men’ opens with its two principal characters, George and Lennie, moving desperately away from Weed to as far as the Soledad area. Weed is the place they used to work but had to leave to save their lives after Lennie stirred up trouble for an apparent sexual assault on a woman. Although John Steinbeckmakes it immediately clear to readers that their migration is spurred by the job offer they received at a ranch in Soledad, there’s no doubt, however, that the main reason th...
Fear and Loneliness
With the exception of the boss who owns the ranch, it’s hard to find one more character throughout the book who isn’t consumed by fear or gets sunk in by the feeling of loneliness, or both. Lennie is a perfect exemplification of both, and this reality becomes very hard for readers to accept, given his size and the excelling expectations one would place on him at first sight. Of the many instances leading to the two friends losing their jobs, Lennie’s fears and inability to curb his strength c...
Shattered Dreams
John Steinbeck’s characters have dreams, each on their own, but none ever get to live them out. The high point of a dream brutally shattered in ‘Of Mice and Men’comes to climax at the scene where old Candy is standing over the lifeless body of Curley’s wife, saying; Here, one notices old Candy rendering expletives on Curley’s wife, who is lying on the barn floor, partly covered by hay, dead. He blames her for being killed by Lennie, the result of which destroys his dream of someday washing di...
George and Lennie hurry through the brush near the river called Salinas after alighting a bus untimely.George aims to chide Lennie for hiding a dead mouse in his pocket and makes him throw it away.Lennie threatens to leave George and go live in a cave alone, but George begs and talks him out of it by retelling him their shared dream of owning a ranch.George and Lennie get to the ranch and are received by Candy, who tells them the boss is angry they’re a day late.The style of John Steinbeck’s book ‘Of Mice and Men’ is both descriptive and commentatory, with Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie‘s ‘Half of a Yellow Sun‘ the only close comparison on these fronts. Steinbeck instilled a dialogue-type conversation throughout the book because his real intention goes beyond the book just serving as a mere novella as he also in...
John Steinbeck’s ‘Of Mice and Men’ is flooded with figurative language, and this doesn’t come unexpectedly to the readers, given that it’s part of the characteristics of descriptive writing. Some of the most prevalent figurative languages employed are highlighted.
The Dream Farm
George and Lennie talk about the dream farm for the most part of the book starting from chapter one. The two friends have this dream of co-owning a small farm where George grows vegetation and Lennie resigns to the pleasure of rearing rabbits. The dream is found to be contagious and wanted by the men at the ranch, with Crooks and Candy particularly showing interest because it offers them the chance to become free, independent, and self-sufficient. The dream is representative of the elusive Am...
Candy’s Old Dog
In the book, Candy’s dog is killed for being weak, old, and smelly. This goes to represent the repercussion of being weak in the times in which ‘Of Mice and Men’ was written.
The Dead Mouse
In ‘Of Mice and Men’ George discovers that Lennie is hiding a dead mouse in his pocket and throws it away to the other side of the swamp. Before that happens, we see Lennie’s reluctance to give away the dead animal which he had mistakenly killed by severe stroking. With the dead mouse, there is a symbolism of false hope, and Lennie is too focused on clinging to it. However, George throwing it away marks the end of all hope for their goal, just like when he kills Lennie at the end with a gunsh...
Explanations of Of Mice and Men's symbols, and tracking of where they appear. Of Mice and Men: Theme Wheel An interactive data visualization of Of Mice and Men 's plot and themes.
Symbolism in John Steinbeck's Of Mice and Men. Learn about the different symbols such as The Pool in Of Mice and Men and how they contribute to the plot of the book.
