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Of Mice and Men

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Discrimination

- 1930's - segregation

- KKK

- Use of slurs

- Female character

- Portrayed in a negative light

Brooklyn Daily Eagle, 1929

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JOHN

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The American Dream

The Wall Street Crash

Steinbeck

The Great Depression

February 27, 1902 – December 20, 1968

- Idea of opportunity and prosperity

- Belief that anyone regardless or ethnicity or class can attain succdss

- Stock market crash

- October 29, 1929

- 16 million shares were traded due to overvaluation

- panic selling, growing gank loans

- Billions of dollars lost

Rarrarorro, n.d.

- 1929 ± 1939

- 'Worst' economic disaster in American history

- GDP and industrial produce fell

- High unemployment rates

- Result of increased government spending on wlfare and military

He earned the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1962, the National Book Award and Pulitzer Prize in 1940

Investopedia (2023

Getty Images, 1935

The term was coined in 1930's Epic Of America by James Truslow Adams.

As well as Of Mice and Men, he is known for The Grapes Of Wrath (1939), which won the latter two awards, and East of Eden.

Brooklyn Daily Eagle, 1929

Though the American Dream existed, the 'rewards' it promises have rarely been seen by everyonne because of Racism, Sexism, Classism, etc.

New Yorker, 1938

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Bibliography

Hoovervilles

The Dust Bowl

- Homeless encampments around America during the Great Depression

- Housing crisis

- New deal helped bring America out of the Depression

- Dust storms

- 1930's

- Drought

- 2.5 million people migrated out of these states

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University of Washington, 2009

Smith College, 2020

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