Daniel Armstrong
English 3rd Period
12/31/09
2. There is a hideous misconception here- Steinbeck did not want a Aesop-esque moral here so we can go home and implement this cute little dote of wisdom into our lives which are usually void of such perfectly fitting symmetry. Steinbeck was a realist. The point of this book was to show us the sometimes bitter hand of reality coming and taking away our dreams which fit inside our minds so perfectly, but not into the true world. George and Linnie had a dream. By a completely unjust, immoral, and sick turn of events this dream was ground into sand and tossed into the wind, only to be seen again in the hallucinatory fashion of dreams. Steinbeck had events like this in his own life; they did not fit together. Rather, they clashed and fought and tore at him so much he felt he needed to warn the world of such evil through Of Mice and Men. This in fact, is the "point" of the novel.