Steinberg published his novel ¡§Of mice and Man¡¨ in 1937, it was the time after the infamous Depression of American. Steinberg¡¦ s ¡§Of Mice and Men¡¨ is based on that period of time when economic collapsed, banks and companies closed and workers unemployed. And this novel, and a few other novel by Steinberg, based on what he see and what he experience during that difficult period.
One of the themes of this story is loneliness. Steinberg noticed that workers are some of the main sufferer of the Depression. Workers travel from town to town, place to place in order to find temporary job. They are not able to build relationship due to their brief togetherness with others before they needed to travel again looking for another job. Steinberg¡¦s ¡§Of mice and Men¡¨ built upon this loneliness and the isolation between workers from each other. Although he never directly mentioned any of his characters being lonely in the novel, we can see Steinberg¡¦s intention by the......
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