Show how ‘Of Mice and Men’ is about dreams, loneliness and outsiders ‘Of Mice and Men’ is set in the ranches of Northern California during the 1930’s. The reason why the Author, John Steinbeck wrote this book is because whilst working to support himself through his college career from 1919 to 1926, he did a number of unskilled manual jobs. One being a farm labourer on ranches in North California. It was this experience that influenced Steinbeck …showed first 75 words of 1529 total…

…showed last 75 words of 1529 total…apparent reason. This behaviour shows us of his loneliness. All of these characters (bar Curley) can be branded as ‘Outsiders’ for the simple reasons that they all fall into the category of not being either male, white or rich. At the time of the book if you didn’t have all of these privileges you were classed as less important and therefore did not have an equally fair chance of achieving your dream in life.