Motifs In Of Mice And Men

In the book Of Mice and Men there are a theme, motif, and symbol that contribute towards the Great Depression. All people are flawed, violence, and Candy's dog. All of these support the main subject and are seen in the book. The first example is a motif: violence. During this time everyone resorted to violence, because they were mad. They lost all their money in the banks and now they can’t even keep them, and their families stable.They were violent towards the government since they weren’t doing anything to even help. It contributes to mice and men by how Curly was very violent, and so was Lennie. “He slashed at Lennie with his left, and then smashed down his nose with a right.” Curley was violent towards everyone because he wanted to feel bigger than everyone and so he would pick fights.Lennie was violent because he didn’t know his own strength and didn’t mean to hurt anyone.

In the book everyone does something at least once that makes them flawed. Curley beat up Lennie, Lennie killed a dog, a rabbit, and curley's wife, Carlson shot Candys dog, Curley's wife got herself killed because she didn’t know what she was doing and was flirting with everyone, George lied to the boss so Lennie could be able to work. “He got kicked in the head by a horse when he was a kid.” Everyone did something, just some are a lot worse than others. This relates to the great depression with how everyone was going crazy and the government made a lot of mistakes which makes them flawed. People were selling their children just to make some extra money and the people were full of