Question

Choose one of the two questions:

1. How does the title, Of Mice and Men, connect to its plot and themes? --OR--

2. Select and copy (with quotation marks) one quote from pages 24-54 in Of Mice and Men. Explain why the quote is important to the story as a whole.

Answer 1

I'm going with choice 1.

Step-by-step explanation:

Steinbeck chose the title Of Mice and Men after reading a poem called “To a Mouse” by Robert Burns, in which the poet regrets accidentally destroying a mouse's nest. The poem resonates with several of Of Mice and Men's central themes: the impermanence of home and the harshness of life for the most vulnerable