Of Mice and Men

by John Steinbeck

The isolated and rootless existence of the itinerant is the historicity that Steinbeck represents.

Of Mice and Men was thus the first book Steinbeck began with a sense of artistic independence born of personal security.

Of Mice and Men registers the intimate lives of the workers who were the largely nameless victims in the earlier book.

“For its direct force and perception in handling a theme genuinely rooted in American life; for its bite into the strict quality of its material; for its refusal to make this study of tragical loneliness and frustration either cheap or sensational, and finally for its simple, intense and steadily rising effect on the stage.”

pugnacious.