The most common areas affected are the last part of the small intestine (ileum) and the colon. Inflammation may be confined to the bowel wall, which can lead to narrowing from inflammation or scarring or both (fibrostenosis), or may tunnel through the bowel wall (fistula).
This is an Of Mice and Men study guide for the book Of Mice and Men which is a novella written by Nobel Prize-winning author John Steinbeck. Published in 1937, it tells the tragic story of George Milton and Lennie Small, two displaced migrant ranch workers during the Great Depression in California, USA. Please click on the guide category you wish to be displayed.
Of Mice and Men takes its title from a famous lyric by the Scottish poet Robert Burns (1759 - 1796). Burns's poem To a Mouse contains the lines, The best laid plans of mice and men / Often go awry. Nearly all of the main characters Of Mice and Men harbor dreams and plans that never come true.