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. The film significantlyshot rather than locked up in a cage.altered the portrayal of Lennie s killing of Curley swife.It lingered on the death scene, amplifyingSmall, Lennie A character in Of Mice and Men,not only the violence, but also the sexual tensionLennie is a migrant laborer who drifts from ranchof the interaction.to ranch with his friend and protector GeorgeMilton.He is semiretarded, a child with a giant sFURTHER READINGbody, with a huge, shapeless face, large pale eyes,Bloom, Harold, ed.John Steinbeck s Of Mice and Menand wide, sloping shoulders.Lennie likes to pet(Bloom s Notes).New York: Chelsea House, 1999.soft things, particularly small animals.LennieButcher, Fanny. Books. Chicago Daily Tribune, Feb-dreams of the day that he and George will ownruary 27, 1937, 11.their own farm, where he will have a bunch ofCanby, Henry Seidel. Casuals of the Road. Saturdayrabbits to pet and care for.Curley tries to pick aReview, February 27, 1937, 7.fight with him, and he crushes the man s hand inhis powerful fist.When he inadvertently kills Cur- Collins Dorothea Brande. Reading at Random. American Review, April 1937, 100 113.ley s wife, George shoots him in the back of thehead to prevent him from being locked up like an Gannett, Lewis. Books and Things. New York Heraldanimal.Tribune, February 25, 1937, 17. 152 Once There Was a WarHadella, Charlotte Cook. The Dialogic Tension in by the U.S.War Department to travel to the Euro-Steinbeck s Portrait of Curley s Wife. In Johnpean war theater to write a series of articles for theSteinbeck: The Years of Greatness, 1936 1939,New York Herald Tribune.Steinbeck had recentlyedited by Tetsumaro Hayashi.Tuscaloosa: Univer- married his second wife, GWYNDOLYN CONGER, andsity of Alabama Press, 1993, 64 74.left his young bride to become a war correspondent.Jackson, Joseph Henry. Steinbeck s Art Finds Power-He remained in Europe from June to October, trav-ful Expression in Of Mice and Men. San Franciscoeling first to England, then North Africa, andChronicle, February 28, 1937, Section D, 7.finally Italy and the Mediterranean.Instead ofJohnson, Claudia D.Understanding Of Mice and Men,using the objective style of reporting like the cele-The Red Pony, and The Pearl: A Student Casebookbrated war correspondents Ernie Pyle and Clarkto Issues, Sources, and Historical Documents.West-Lee, the author chose a style similar to the story-port, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 1997.telling that had made him famous, recountingKarson, Jill.Readings on Of Mice and Men.San Diego,interesting anecdotes and personal accounts thatCalif.: Greenhaven Press, 1997.were both intimate and alive with detail.HisMarsh, Fred T. John Steinbeck s Tale of Driftingcolumns proved to be immensely popular and wereMen. New York Times Book Review, February 28,soon syndicated and reproduced throughout the1937, 7.United States and the world.The author indicatesMoore, Henry Thornton. Of Mice and Men. Newthat many of his stories were heavily edited both byRepublic, March 3, 1937, 118 119.himself and the official military censors, a commonO Connor, Richard.John Steinbeck.New York:practice to preserve the secrecy of troop move-McGraw-Hill, 1970.ments and the location of strategic facilities.TheSeixas, Tony. John Steinbeck and the Non-teleologi-articles appear as they were originally published,cal Bus. In Steinbeck and His Critics, edited by E.with datelines that indicate only Somewhere inW.Tedlock and C.V.Wicker, 275 280.Albu-England or Somewhere in Africa, reflecting thequerque: University of New Mexico Press, 1957.restrictions imposed by the censors.Various articlesShedd, Margaret. Of Mice and Men. Theatre Arts,also have sentences or even whole paragraphs cutOctober 1937, 774 780.and marked removed by censor. Fifteen yearsSteinbeck, John.Of Mice and Men.New York: Coviciafter the columns first appeared in The New Yorkand Friede, 1937.Herald Tribune, Steinbeck s war correspondence Theatre: A Completely Satisfying American Play. was collected and published in the book OnceLiterary Digest, December 18, 1937, 34.There Was a War, by VIKING PRESS in 1958.Wagner, Charles A. Books. New York Mirror, Febru-ary 24, 1937, 25.SYNOPSISVan Doren, Mark. Wrong Number. Nation, MarchOnce There Was a War: An Introduction6, 1937, 275.Written 15 years after Steinbeck traveled to EuropeWeeks, Edward. The Bookshelf. Atlantic, Aprilto write about the allied war effort, the introduc-1937, 14, 16. Young Man s Dream. Time, March 1, 1937, 69.tion to Once There Was a War declares World WarII to be the last of its kind, that is, the last of thelong global wars.Writing at the height of the coldwar, the author is clearly concerned with the loom-Once There Was a Waring threat of nuclear war and annihilation.(1958) Steinbeck notes that upon rereading his wararticles after so many years, he finds them to beSteinbeck s 24th book, Once There Was a War is a quite dated, one-sided, and impacted too deeply bycollection of the author s articles from WORLD the single-mindedness of the Allied war effort, andWAR II.In 1943 Steinbeck was granted permission the romance of war.He writes of the censorship Once There Was a War 153that affects the war correspondent s attempts to gent works tirelessly to entertain the troopsdocument the war, both official censorship and self- aboard the ship.The author remarks on thecensorship [ Pobierz całość w formacie PDF ]