Good Shit

In the presence of such power, such observation, such compassion,

such humor, it seems almost ungrateful to make reservation to ask

that what is so good should be even better of Steinbeck's books. Its just

amazing how he can take a classic tragedy and turn it into a top selling

novel. He can define them so deeply and amusingly. The first time I

picked up Mice of Men I couldn't put it down. Then I read Grapes of

Wrath. He made me feel like I was right in the action when it happened.

But the sad thing is that in Steinbeck's novels there are always

tragic events in the families some way or another. Take Grapes of

Wrath

and Mice of Men for instance. In Mice of Men there was these two

friends traveling together trying to find work. Only one of the guys were

handicap. And since he doesn't know any better he kills animals cause

he can't control his straigth. And then in the Grapes of Wrath Tom Joad

just got released from prison, for attempted man sloter, right in the

beginning of chapter two. "Steinbeck has achieved his success by

working within limitations which are perhaps self imposed but which

seem on the whole to be imposed but which seem on the whole to be

imposed on him by his temperament."(W.M. Frohock) Pg.323

In both books the characters try to find a more refreshing life to

live then the one they have been living. But they also mess there old

lives up by doing bad things. In Mice of Men Larry kills things or says

something's that hes not saposed to say. But he doesn't know better

cause hes handicap. So he just does things. In Grapes of Wrath Tom

Joad is just like Larry in Mice of Men. Tom does things with out thinking

even though he is not handy cap. He just got mixed up in some bad

things. But thats not why the Joad family had to leave town, they had to

leave town because of some other type of tragedy. The Grapes of

Wrath,

generally conceded to be Steinbeck's best novel, was taken to be a

fitting achievement, for it concentrated, more successfully than any

other novel, on the depression and on the needed for economic and

social retorms.(Max Westbrook) Pg. 326

The cause of the Mice of Men characters to move from place to

place was because Larry always caused trouble even though he didn't

mean to. "Steinbeck, aroused over the trampling of human life, put