John Steinbeck was born on 27 February 1902 in Salinas, California. "Of Mice and Men" was published in 1973, it was immediately successful and Steinbeck was beginning to be recognised as an author. The novel is set in Soledad, California and is about two migrant agricultural labourers, George Milton and Lennie Small. The two workers travel together which are unlike most of the other migrants. Lennie has a body of a grown man but a mind of a …showed first 75 words of 1453 total…

…showed last 75 words of 1453 total…in his novel are generally poor lonely people and travel alone (apart from Lennie and George), they all have dreams and goals they want to achieve however never being able to. Most migrant workers are selfish because they are used to being isolated, they travel from place to place and does not know any other way of living but to be selfish. Each one of them works on ranches in search of a better life.