A STUDY OF SPATIAL NARRATIVE IN OF MICE AND MEN
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Qing Hui
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In his novel Of Mice and Men, American writer John Steinbeck portrays two farm workers, George and Lenny, who depend on and support each other. The two heroes struggle to survive on the edge of a brutal society, where a strong friendship and shared vision are finally strangled by brutal reality. Through the meticulous description and cutting combination of different Spaces, the novel reflects the geographical space of nature and reality, the space-time space of three parallel clues and the interlacing and opposing text space. Based on space writing, this study interprets the themes of loyal friendship, loneliness and disillusionment of hope in the novel, reveals the author's criticism of the contradictory relations between man and man, between man and nature, between man and land, and his longing for a harmonious society in the future.
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