Of Mice and Men and The Old Man and the Sea are fucking amazing classics that resonate. While you read them, maybe they don’t have the impact but as life goes on you might find that they were a good foundation for how life is later into adulthood and the hard bad or worse decisions that life forces you to make.
I can understand the phenomenon of having one’s hand forced, but there were many times in Of Mice and Men when I thought “I know exactly what I would do in this situation, and it wouldn’t have been what they did”. From start to end, the book’s points seem based on assumptions on how their circumstances work which makes it not hold up.
Of Mice and Men and The Old Man and the Sea are fucking amazing classics that resonate. While you read them, maybe they don’t have the impact but as life goes on you might find that they were a good foundation for how life is later into adulthood and the hard bad or worse decisions that life forces you to make.
I can understand the phenomenon of having one’s hand forced, but there were many times in Of Mice and Men when I thought “I know exactly what I would do in this situation, and it wouldn’t have been what they did”. From start to end, the book’s points seem based on assumptions on how their circumstances work which makes it not hold up.