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The underlining story in 'Of mice and men' relates to the American mans inevitable destiny within the mid 1930's. John Steinbecks story is set in California in the mid 1930s where a formidable amount of American men were genuinely lonely and had the tragedy of dispossession. The story centres around two characters, George and Lennie, two bindle stiff workers who are sent from ranch to ranch harvesting wheat, barley and sugar beets. The economical situation was oppressive to the extent that agricultural labouring was the only answer for men like these. In these times the wages were low and living quarters squalid. The powerlessness of the Californian labouring class loomed indefatigably and the opportunity for advancing in society was practically non-existent. Steinbeck's examination of the reality in 'Of mice and men' sets the story a few miles south of Soledad. Soledad is Spanish for "solitude", the intense loneliness and anger engendered...

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