The Farm

Of mice and men




The Farm



Now I lay me down to sleep. I pray the Lord my soul to keep. If I should die before I wake, I pray the Lord my soul to take. In the book Of Mice and Men Steinbeck is trying to show how anything can be symbolic. For instance the Farm was could be three things. It was like a Promise Land for the residence. Secondly the Farm was significant to heaven. Finally of all the symbols of the Farm was success for the entire group of workers because of the pay at the end of the road. To discuss these symbols I will use George and Lennie.



Everyone looks for success, whether it is under a rock, or over as long as it’s coming with good pay. For George and Lennie, since they were just running from a dreary land with nothing but trouble and nothing coming out of what George was trying to do? The Farm was a land of promise for a seed to sow into maybe where they could start their own promise land. So they were basically working for a heavenly place of their own while they lived someone else’s backyard.


A promise is made for the reason that there was something wrong with a past situation. If you were to live in the town of Weed you would make a Promise to go after success. So on the Farm it was a Promise Land in success for going after their heavenly place.


Heaven a place up in the sky that is promised to people who searched for success. In away that is right. So George and Lennie putting their 50 dollars together along with Candy’s 350 dollars. To get near the land that they promised they would reach. That would be raining in success. Also be significant to heaven. But everyone falls short of Gods glory, but that is why Christ sacrificed his life. This goes to show to get what you want something has to be sacrificed. Whether it was Candy being canned or done with like his dog. And maybe George being done with like Candy’s dog.


Whether George and Lennie were on the right track to the heavenly land of promise, raining with success. It is your desicenion.