of mice and men分析请问谁能帮我分析一下《of mice and 高人请用英语回答~Thanks~The title "of mice and men"1:meaning2:origin3:what does it suggest?

of mice and men分析
请问谁能帮我分析一下《of mice and
高人请用英语回答~
Thanks~
The title "of mice and men"
1:meaning
2:origin
3:what does it suggest?

Themes
The themes of this novella are very clear:one (the fragility of people's dreams) is indicated in the title.The other themes are friendship,and its opposite,loneliness.
The fagility of dreams
The novella's title comes from a poem,To a Mouse (on turning her up in her nest with the plough) by the Scots poet Robert Burns (1759-1796):
“The best-laid plans of mice and men
Gang aft agley (=often go wrong).
And leave us naught but grief and pain
For promised joy.”
Burns shows how the plans of men are no more secure than those of the mouse,and this is the point of Steinbeck's title.The source of the characters' dreams is their discontent with their present.Steinbeck shows how poor their lifestyle is:they have few possessions,fewer comforts,no chance of marriage or family life and no place of their own.

Of Mice and Men is a novel by John Steinbeck, first published in 1937, which tells the tragic story of George and Lennie, two displaced Anglo migrant farm workers in California during the Great Depres...

全部展开

Of Mice and Men is a novel by John Steinbeck, first published in 1937, which tells the tragic story of George and Lennie, two displaced Anglo migrant farm workers in California during the Great Depression (1929-1939). The title of the novel is an allusion to "To a Mouse", a poem by Robert Burns.
The story is set on a ranch a few miles from Soledad in the Salinas Valley. Lennie is a big man with the mind of a child. George is a smaller man with normal intelligence. The men are wandering ranch workers who travel together.
Of Mice and Men is based on Steinbeck's own experience as a 'bindle stiff' in the 1920s, before the arrival of the 'Okies' whom he had vividly described in The Grapes of Wrath.

收起