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Submitted by Zteven1129 on May 17, 2007
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Steinberg published his novel ¡§Of mice and Man¡¨ in 1937, it was the time after the infamous Depression of American. Steinberg¡¦ s ¡§Of Mice and Men¡¨ is based on that period of time when economic collapsed, banks and companies closed and workers unemployed. And this novel, and a few other novel by Steinberg, based on what he see and what he experience during that difficult period.
One of the themes of this story is loneliness. Steinberg noticed that workers are some of the main sufferer of the Depression. Workers travel from town to town, place to place in order to find temporary job. They are not able to build relationship due to their brief togetherness with others before they needed to travel again looking for another job. Steinberg¡¦s ¡§Of mice and Men¡¨ built upon this loneliness and the isolation between workers from each other. Although he never directly mentioned any of his characters being lonely in the novel, we can see Steinberg¡¦s intention by the way he describe his character and also in the conversation.
Indeed, Steinberg is particularly good at description, be it the scene, the characters or the environment. One good example is the description of Curley¡¦s wife. He mention ¡§She had¡K¡K.., heavily made up ¡¨ p.53.
¡§Her finger nails were red¡K¡K. She wore a cotton house dress and red mules, on the insteps of which were little bouquets of red ostrich feathers¡¨ p.53
By describing the inappropriate dress of Curley¡¦s wife in the ranch give reader a impression that this Curley¡¦s wife is a loose woman. The use color red in her appearance also point out that she is not a well behaved housewife as in the expression ¡§Scarlet Woman¡¨. What is more, Steinberg¡¦s description on her started even before her first appearance in the story through conversation between Candy and George on p49 -50. Candy mentioned ¡§I seen he give Silm the eye¡¨ p.49, ¡§An¡¦ I seen...
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