NovellaAmerican · 1937Study guide · no full textGentle

Of Mice and Men

A short book built like a play: the same riverbank, the same story told twice, the ending prepared from page one.

Study guide

This work is still in copyright, so there is no full text on the page. What you get instead: the context, the cast, the ideas and the themes — enough to read it well, and to know exactly what to watch for in the first thirty pages.

“Guys like us, that work on ranches, are the loneliest guys in the world.”

The cast, in the Character Atlas →Literary devices →Where it sits in time →

Go deeper

Class — how other works handle it →Mortality — how other works handle it →

Now read the first page with all of this in mind.

The notes here are the map; the book is the journey.

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