Published in the aftermath of the Great Depression of 1937 and dramatized for the stage in that same year, John Steinbeck's Of Mice and Men is a tale of the American dream gone awry. The import of that failed dream - embodied in the lives of struggling migrant farmworkers - for the individual soul and for the country as a whole is examined in this study. Hadella informs her literary analysis of Steinbeck's novel with background on the history of Californian...