Of Mice And Men Evaluation

  As John Steinbeck said in his Nobel prize acceptance speech, good literature is where a characters faults and greatness are shown. Steinbeck shows this in his novel Of Mice And Men, where his character George and Curley's wife.
  All Literature shows at least one characters faults and greatness. In most books the author just shows the characters problems and them fixing the problem. Steinbeck goes beyond that. In his book all of his characters show there many faults and there moments of greatness. Steinbeck states in his Nobel acceptance speech "... writers who does not passionitly believe in the perffectibility of man has no dedication or membership in literature.
  One character from Of Mice And Men is George. George is a ranch hand that travels with his mentaly  handicapped friend Lennie. Lennie,causes one of George's greatest fault, his short temper. Throughout the book George gradually overcame his temper and came to love Lennie.
  Another character from Of Mice And Men is Curley's wife. She had many faults. She always wanted attention, but Curley could not give her enough. So she snuck around on the ranch. she tried to seduce Lennie which ultimatly led to her demise. George had told Lennie to stay away from her but Curley's wife, deprived of attention, could not. But in her death she gained more attention than she ever had.
  As stated in the first paragraph John Steinbeck thought that the best literature was expressed by showing a characters faults and greatnesses. And his novel dose this with every character.