SETTING

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I have wrote the setting in the book, here you go...

This book is set during the Great Depression of the 1930s in two places. This was a tragedy where millions of Americans was placed out of work. It was an economic downtown. In 1933, 13-15 millions Americans were unemployed and nearly half of the country´s banks had failed. The book starts beside a stream Salinas River, a few miles south of Soledad California. Lennie and George follow this stream. Then moves to a ranch where the major of the story is set. 

The Great Depression left people all over the country especially men poor and desperate for work. This poverty makes the characters suspicious and distrustful.  Against this backdrop of suspicion and isolation, Lennie and George´s friendship seems even more important and even more doomed.  Additionally Great Depression, it was also segregation during 1930s. We realize this by meeting Crook.  The race segregation on this time was a turbulent time for race relations in America. Racism was as strong as ever in Southern states.

Sources 

http://xroads.virginia.edu/~ug02/newyorker/race.html

http://www.history.com/topics/great-depression

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Depression

-Frida