OF MICE AND MEN AS A PARABLE

The Novel as Parable. Of mice and men as a parable is the best description of this book. The main parable of this book would be the ending in which George kills Lennie. I will compare it to the biblical story of Cain and Abel to George and Lennie. Cain and Abel were both sons of Adam and Eve. Cain was the first born and Abel was the second. Cain was a farmer and grew …

…his “dream” life will not exist and he is furious. He had the choice to either to watch his friend be murdered or do it himself. George quickly chose to kill Lennie. The parable of each story is that families are important. Also a parable was that you should think before you act. And in each story the families were divided by a hastily act. The book Of Mice and Men is a definite parable.