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>Of Mice and Men was Steinbeck's first attempt at writing in the form of novel-play termed a "play-novelette" by one critic. Structured in three acts of two chapters each, it is intended to be both a novella and a script for a play. It is only 30,000 words in length. Steinbeck wanted to write a novel that could be played from its lines, or a play that could be read like a novel.[10]

>Steinbeck originally titled it "The Dangerous Retard." However, he changed the title after reading Robert Burns's poem To a Mouse. [11] Burns's poem tells of the regret the narrator feels for having destroyed the home of a mouse while plowing his field.[12]

What the fuck was Steinbeck thinking?

>> No.18205862

>>18205856
>The Dangerious Retard
Yes.

>> No.18205870

boy i wish he never discovered that poem

>> No.18205912

It would go into a category along with The Nigger of the Narcissus for books you could never read or even mention in public

>> No.18205931

>>18205870
Do you hate Steinbeck as well anon?

>> No.18206290

>>18205931
I think he means he wishes it was published as “The Dangerous Retard”. I have to agree

>> No.18206295

>>18205856
Hi Nick, how's the podcast working for you?

>> No.18207014

>>18205856
I've never heard it's original title as "The Dangerous Retard", but "Something That Happened" in a referral to the detached, cynical point of the novel. Where did you read that bit?