Questions tagged [john-steinbeck]
Questions about the works of John Steinbeck (1902 – 1968) or his life as a writer. Steinbeck was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1962.
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Was Lenny Small actually not a fundamentally good person?
It is easy to see Lenny as an innocent who had simple longings, an unfortunate due to his disability but fundamentally a sympathetic character; however, it seems to me that while most of his violence ...
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How is “Of Mice and Men” by John Steinbeck still relevant to readers of today?
I guess isolation and social exclusion of different groups is something of relevance. e.g.
Crooks: racism
Curley's wife: misogyny
Candy: ageism
Lennie: ableism
But I still can't think of any ...
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Is Steinbeck's “The Moon is Down” set in Norway?
I recently read The Moon is Down by John Steinbeck and I noticed that the conquerors and the conquered are not defined. Throughout the novel are several allusions that the conquerors are German. They ...
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Who is “Sylvia” in Steinbeck's “The Pastures of Heaven”?
This short passage is quoted from chapter II of J. Steinbeck's The Pastures of Heaven:
George cared for his house and kept a flower garden in front of it.
The upper story of the house had never ...
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Why does Steinbeck never name Curley's wife?
Curley's wife plays an important role in the novel and yet is never given a name. Perhaps Steinbeck was trying to not encourage the audience to develop a personal connection to her? I'd like to see ...
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Does Curley ever realize Lennie is cognitively disabled?
From the moment Curley sees Lennie, he develops a strong dislike towards him because Lennie is physically bigger than Curley. I've always wondered if there were other reasons for Curley's hatred of ...
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Are any of Kino's attackers directly linked to the one pearl buyer?
In The Pearl, chapter 4, when Kino is trying to sell his massive pearl in the village market, it's revealed that all the pearl buyers work for one man:
It was supposed that the pearl buyers were ...
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Why did George have to kill this character?
In Of Mice and Men, I never understood why it was necessary for
when George simply could've pulled some sort of diversionary tactic and falsely led the rest of the lynch mob somewhere else in the ...
