Of Mice and Men Of Mice and Men, by John Steinbeck, takes place on a ranch in the Salinas Valley of California, against the backdrop of the Great Depression. Steinbeck writes of two ordinary men trying to live the American Dream. Unfortunately they fail to fulfill those dreams. Steinbeck opens the book by vividly painting a picture of the Salinas River Valley. Two traveling laborers, George Milton and Lennie Small, are on their way to …showed first 75 words of 979 total…

…showed last 75 words of 979 total…with nice clothes (Curly’s wife’s dream) to owning a farm and being able to tend the rabbits (Lennie’s dream). The characters lived their lives believing that their American Dream would come true. Unfortunately, for Lennie and George their American Dream fell one week and one hundred dollars short. If Lennie stayed out of trouble for just one more week he would have earned enough money to live their American Dream. Bibliography none