the of mice and men era

John Steinbeck was born in 1902 in California. He

came form a pretty modern family

He went to Stanford university but never graduated in 1925 he went to new York were he trained himself to become a freelance writer but failed and retuned to California.

Steinbeck

It started when imports got a lot more

expensive. By 1932, unemployment had reached 23.6%,

and more then 5,000 banks failed.

The great depression.

A chart of how badly the great depression hit America.

John Steinbeck began to write his novella in 1937 two years before the war.In his book it contains zoomorphic imagery and about the American dream.

Of Mice and men

The American dream was a way of

encouragement for the citizens of America. The dream was based around a perfect life a

house a dog and a car. Propaganda was placed all over cities to give a

boost and soon after people wanted to have that dream.

The American dream