![]() Their mission, at this point, looks more attainable than ever. ![]() Steinbeck features his own hometown, Salinas Valley, as this is where George and Lennie find and secure a job as workers on the fields. Their agreed-on goal is to own an acre of land and a single shack. Lennie’s own attitude towards George is that of a faithful, loyal companion. Of the two, Lennie boasts a mild mental impairment, and George is with a routine compulsion to get them into trouble. The period where this is set in the one around the Great Depression. Impoverished, down-and-out workers George and Lennie are attempting to ‘work the American dream’ in California. Of Mice and Men, the first of his truly great works, sees Steinbeck paving the road he would treat more than once, as his success only multiplied with each subsequent entry to his writing. ![]() He received the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1962. Steinbeck served as a correspondent during the second World War, and the theme of the great war fills his writings often enough. ![]() He made his return to California, soon enough, and took a job as a caretaker in Lake Tahoe, beginning his career as a writer. He moved to New York, finding a job as a construction worker and, then, a reporter. Following Stanford, Steinbeck gave freelance writing the old college try. ![]()
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