Reflection on Of Mice And Men Review

Summary Of A Movie Review About Of Mice And Men

This article was by Frank S. Nugent in The New York Times. At first glance, this movie review sounded quite similar to the novella, as if the movie was taken straight from the book. The dreaded and pathetic lives of the two drifters moving from place to place and getting into trouble was a main point of this movie review. When I looked very closely into the piece about Curley's wife, I noticed that they gave her the name Mae in the movie. In the novella, she was not given a name, which implied that she was a piece of Curely's property and that feminism was not really around during the time period of the book, but the movie tells otherwise. In addition, the way that the author of this article described Lennie's death sounded as if George was going to kill Lennie because he wanted to, not because he didn't want his friend to have to die a long, painful death. "So the posse went out to hunt him down, and George knew he had to find Lennie first to tell him again about the time they'd have their own little place—and to hold a gun to the back of his happily nodding head." This movie review discussed points that were different than in the actual book, but some of the main concepts were still the same.

2 Favorite Sentences:

"Mr. Steinbeck wrote, as you probably are aware, the pathetic, fateridden drama of two bundle stiffs who dreamed, and kindled other men's dreams, of owning their' own little ranch and living off "the fatta the lan'." " I enjoyed this sentence from the article, because in one sentence, the author summarized many of the basic components of the novella. I also like this sentence because of the many FAST words that really enhanced the writing.

"Doom takes its course and bides its moment; there is hysteria in waiting for the crisis to come." To me, this sentence is very descriptive and does a very good job of emphasizing the panic and sense of doom that occurs very often in the novella.