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By Dr Oliver Tearle (Loughborough University) ‘The best-laid schemes of mice and men’ is one of those literary quotations which have slipped free of their origins and taken on a whole new, proverbial meaning. This phrase has issued from the mouths of people who have doubtless never read the poem in which it initially appeared, and many ...
John Steinbeck’s 1937 novel Of Mice and Men revolves around the notion that, whatever careful plans are made, things don’t always go as expected. It took both its title and its theme from Burns’ poem. Eric Idle also referenced the poem in his Monty Python sketch Word Association Football. He extended the line:
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107. Of Mice and Men is a 1937 novella written by American author John Steinbeck. [1] [2] It narrates the experiences of George Milton and Lennie Small, two displaced migrant ranch workers, who move from place to place in California in search of new job opportunities during the Great Depression in the United States .
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John Steinbeck took the title of his 1937 novel Of Mice and Men from a line contained in the penultimate stanza. The 1997 novel The Best Laid Plans by Sidney Sheldon also draws its title from this line, and so do the novel of the same name by Canadian author Terry Fallis and the film series based on it.
The title of Of Mice and Men is drawn from a Robert Burns poem titled “To a Mouse, on Turning up in Her Nest with the Plough, November, 1785,” which features the line “The best laid schemes o’ Mice an’ Men, / Gang aft agley.”. The poem describes its speaker’s shock and regret upon realizing they have disturbed a mouse in her nest ...
The best laid plans of mice and men often go awry. This was written by a guy named Robert Burns in 1785, not John Steinbeck. It is from a poem I have attached below called To a Mouse. The verse ...
The full phrase is "the best laid plans of mice and men often go awry." I would look at the literal meaning of this quotation and apply it to the novel as a whole. Approved by eNotes Editorial
