The Dissertation About The Mice And Men

John Steinbeck is one of the most important writers in the United States. He becamepopular because of his of Mice and Men. Of Mice and Men won for Steinbeck the1937NewYork Drama Critics Award which honored him for "handling a theme genuinely rooted inAmerican life." Two years later, he won the sixth Nobel Prize for literature because of therealistic novel The Grapes of Wrath. These works which truly reflect the theme of themiserable life of working people won the majority of readers’ heartIn the1950s Steinbeck’ works were introduced to China. During the past60years, underthe influence of many factors, Steinbeck experienced the process from praise to scorn inChina, so Chinese scholars neglected this great writer gradually. Until21st century, theychanged their attitude towards him a little bit because of the popularity of studying Steinbeck,but not obvious. In addition to the rare attention of a few scholars, there were only a fewarticles which studied him in the newspapers and magazines. More regrettably, among thesearticles, people always focused on The Grapes of Wrath instead of the most popular novel ofMice and Men in America. Lan·Osby once said that though of Mice and Men is simple andshort, it cannot be underestimated” For the scholars who like Steinbeck, there is no doubt thatof Mice and Men has a great significance.Of mice and men is about life which George and Lenny employed by asset class farmersas season farmers workers in the western United States. They dream of having a piece of theirown land, and try to overcome all difficulties and dissipate, but the story of the dream willdifficult to achieve.“Of mice and men gets rid of the parties struggle and ideologyentanglements, theme pure, so moving: a pair of sisters friends constantly stray, but only needa ‘own a piece of land’ and ‘a hut’”.As a writer, John Steinbeck has the experience ofcontact with season migrant workers, provide reliable basis and work for real reflectAmerican’s season of life in rural migrant workers. This paper starts from the class but it notwants to discuss class relations.But by the point of view, use of social history criticismmethods to read the text.Because of the works of Steinbeck contains the author to all kinds of social phenomenonattention, so the present study on Steinbeck’s scholars from works explore their bring usrealistic enlightenment and meaning, this paper writing purpose also is such.This articlestarts from the20century’s of American social relations, through the class strong and weakdialectical relationship between the research to pay attention to the social vulnerable groupsthe real life of the state, to analysis of the necessity of vulnerable groups of their dreamstragedy reasons, and through the analysis of their dreams tragedy symbol, to study of what heSteinbeck life s understanding of American society, the author bear a kind of literaryexpression through works as social development, explore the works of recognized thedisadvantages of the society at that time,——the great depression between the mercenaries toclass, numb cold among people, This paper convey with “of mice and men" give us now livefor inspiration.