The Survival Game in Harsh Conditions: Of Mice and Men

to join George and Lennie in their pursue of the dreamt land, but everything will abruptly end when Lennie kills Curley's wife accidentally. When the other men find her, they discover what has happened and gather together a lynch party, and George is forced to help them. He has no other choice but to shoot his friend before the other men find him.
             By the time that Of Mice and Men was published, almost half of America's grain was harvested by migrant farm workers, like George and Lennie, our major characters here. Huge numbers of men travelled the countryside between the 1880s and the early 1930s, harvesting wheat. They earned $2.50 or $3.00 a day, as well as food and very basic accommodation, as we can see in the bunkhouse of the farm were they are living in the novel. During this time, when unemployment was a very serious problem in the United States, agencies were set up under the New Deal to send farm workers where they were needed. This is reflected also in Of Mice and Men, when George and Lennie have work cards from Murray and Ready's, one of these agencies.
             The Great Depression began in October 1929, when the stock market in the United States fell rapidly. Thousands of investors lost large sums of money and many lost everything. The crash led the country into what was called the Great Depression. The following period is considered the longest and worst period of high unemployment and low business activity in modern times. Banks, stores, and factories were closed and left millions of Americans jobless, homeless, and penniless. Many people came to depend on the government or charity to provide them with food and other necessities.
             The Depression became a worldwide business failure of the 1930s that affected almost all nations. It led to a sharp decrease in world trade, because each country tried to protect their own industries and products by raising tariffs on imported goods. In Germany, poor economic condit...

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