'Of Mice and Men' is based on the experiences of a migrant farmer, set in 1930s America. The characters are also symbolized as realistic people, but influenced by the issues and circumstances based on the Wall Street Crash, the American Dream, and the post-World War I setting. My empathy for these characters and the consequences of these historical events are what made 'Of Mice and Men' a tragedy in relation to loneliness. Each character had an idea of their own American Dream, whether it was based on money, status, happiness and so on. Yet unfortunately only the reader realizes that they will never come true. George and Lennie's dream of a ranch of their own was passed on to me as their image of Paradise. The opening descriptions of Section One, as the water “shimmered on the yellow sands in the sunlight” referenced in Chapter 1, tell me how Lennie and George travel on their journey to hopefully recreate these experiences as their ranch, to The Sands were “a few miles south of Soledad” as also stated in chapter 1, a land depicted of loneliness and depression, which ...
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