num_pages: 194
description: 
  “I got you to look after me, and you got me to look after you, and that's why.”
They are an unlikely pair: George is "small and quick and dark of face"; Lennie, a man of tremendous size, has the mind of a young child. Yet they have formed a "family," clinging together in the face of loneliness and alienation. Laborers in California's dusty vegetable fields, they hustle work when they can, living a hand-to-mouth existence. But George and Lennie have a plan: to own an acre of land and a shack they can call their own.While the powerlessness of the laboring class is a recurring theme in Steinbeck's work of the late 1930s, he narrowed his focus when composing Of Mice and Men, creating an intimate portrait of two men facing a world marked by petty tyranny, misunderstanding, jealousy, and callousness. But though the scope is narrow, the theme is universal: a friendship and a shared dream that makes an individual's existence meaningful.A unique perspective on life's hardships, this story has achieved the status of timeless classic due to its remarkable success as a novel, a Broadway play, and three acclaimed films.
language: French
title: Des souris et des hommes
titlecomplete: Des souris et des hommes
characters: Slim, Whit, George Milton, Lennie Small, Curley, Carlson, Crooks, Candy, Curley's Wife
genres: High School, Read For School, Historical, Literature, School, Novels, Classics, Historical Fiction, Fiction, American
ratings_count: 2458966
places: California, Salinas Valley, California
awards: awardedAt: -1009814400000
name: New York Drama Critics' Circle Award
category: Best American Play
publisher: Editions Gallimard