A review by iarlais
Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck

dark reflective sad fast-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? Character
  • Strong character development? It's complicated
  • Loveable characters? Yes
  • Diverse cast of characters? No
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.5

Stellar book in prose, themes, and characters, but I feel that it suffers from the ableism in the animalistic languages used to describe Lennie. It's a complicated book to rate, because I really love it for the first three things I mentioned, I think it's a really compelling story, but it doesn't seem right to praise it uncritically when its treatment of a character with a mental disability is so jarring. 
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