Modernism rejects truth and produces the idea that nothing is complete truth, but close or far from the truth; it celebrates the success of the individual. Both Steinbeck and Hemingway were heavily influenced by modernism and the novellas Of Mice and Men and The Old Man and the Sea express this throughout the narratives.
Of Mice and Men gravitates around this idea. The novella follows the story of George and Lennie, two men in 1930’s America. The duo makes an unlikely pair; however they form a sort of family, “Guys like us, that work on ranches, are the loneliest guys in the world. They got no family, they don’t belong no place.”(Of Mice and Men 13) and are alienated from the rest of society, they have only each other. However George often
