Of Mice And Men: The Great Depression And Lennie And George's Dream
Beginning of paper
The Great Depression was a time of hardship for everybody especially ranch workers. It prevented people from living the life they desired. Many people lived in poverty bartering between jobs. Eventually people, like Lennie and George, began searching for jobs in California, in fact “[t]housand ....
Middle of paper
.... fourth of the United States population was unemployed. “Few could spare a dime to help American farmers…”(Nardo13). Lennie had trouble keeping out of mischief and so him and George were always looking for new jobs. This put a damper on their dream because they were unable to save up the money that they would need to purchase a farm. The downfall of America during this time made it very hard for anyone. Even those people who were upper class before the Great Depression lost almost all o ....
------------------
Word count: 739
Page count: 3 (approximately 250 words per page)
