Talk:Of Runaways and Stowaways/@comment-4010415-20161106001924/@comment-24573226-20161106040419

"Of Mice and Men" pulls its title from the line "The best laid plans of mice and men often go awry" which is a modern pronunciation of the original line from the Robert Burns poem "To a Mouse."

In Of Mice and Men, is about two friends, nomadic workers, who look out for each other during the Great Depression, one of whom is big, sweet, and dumb but also dangerously attracted to soft things. Eventually he kills a boss's wife on accident and his friend puts him down before the lynch mob gets to him.