As a Conclusion

Many authors find the inspiration to write in different aspects of their own life but it seems that Steinbeck found it in a poem. 'To a Mouse' by Robert Burns, is a poem focusing on the fragility of the lives we build. We build homes and a life yet one small thing can tear everything we have worked so hard on to shreds. This is, indeed, the case in the book Of Mice and Men. George and Lennie work incredibly hard to build themselves a proper home in which they will be able to spend their future, but one small event alters the entire plan. Forcing it to collapse. During the mid 1930's, at the time that the book was written, a great depression had brought many people to poverty. This only brought more proof of life's fragile properties. One stock market crash and suddenly numerous people were turned out of their homes; left begging on the streets. Steinbeck's choice to call his book Of Mice and Men was an interesting, yet meaningful, decision. It symbolizes the theory that was stated in the poem and suggests a loss of a home. Which is, in fact, extremely close to the actual plot of the novella.