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Of Mice and Men John Steinbeck’s Of Mice and Men is a story of two men in pursuit of their vision of owning a farm and the tragic destruction of that vision during their stay at the ranch. The use of imagery and figurative language, and the style with which the author depicts his characters and their hopeless dreams, are the basis for concluding the main themes in the last chapter of the novel. Imagery plays an important role in setting the mood for Lennie’s predestined death. The author repeatedly describes the progression of dusk, syncopated with the onset of a dark ending. “The sun had left the valley to go climbing up the slopes... The light climbed on out of the valley... Only the topmost ridges were in the sun now... The shadow in the valley was blue and soft... The shadow in the valley was bluer, and the evening came fast. ” Figurative language is abundant in the last chapter, particularly when the author describes the surroundings.
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