Even though he remained at Stanford until 1925, he never graduated. Steinbeck graduated from high school and went on to Stanford University.

Covici-Friede Publishing published the First Edition, First Printing. He worked at various jobs and one in particular as a ranch hand on some of the local ranches later led him to images used in Of Mice and Men. Of Mice and Men is a novel set on a ranch in the Salinas Valley in California during the Great Depression of the 1930s. Keywords: American Dreaming, Cultural Imbalancement, Mice and Men. Of Mice and Men is a novella written by Nobel Prize-winning author John Steinbeck. Thus the American dream leads entire verve and the characters too towards an infinite longingness. Curley's wife dreams to be an actress, to satisfy her desire for fame lost when she married Curley and an end to her loneliness. Crooks aspires to a small homestead where he can express self-respect, security, and most of all, acceptance. Candy aspires to reassert his responsibility lost with the death of his dog, and for security for his old age - on George's homestead. Lennie aspires to be with George on his independent homestead, and to quench his fixation on soft objects. George aspires to independence, to be his own boss, to have a homestead, and most importantly to be 'somebody'. Here, ‘American dreaming’ is noted by a cultural imbalancement, to which Steinbeck emphasizes the dreams throughout the novel. Abstract: This paper investigates the deep rooted cultural imbalancement of American individuals that always reveals a mythological unbounded anecdote in their long journey of deceived life style.

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