I found a book of Steinbeck stories at a yard sale and it included it. In school the only Steinbeck we read was The Pearl. The book also has The Red Pony which I liked. What did y’all think of Mice and Men? I thought it was a good but sad book and I watched the movie (black and white one) afterwards. I didn’t see the foreshadowing until after the fact.
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It was required reading for me in high school. I thought it was okay at the time, and now I only remember the broadest outline of the plot. But then any book makes for pleasant reading after you've been forced to read The Old Man and the Sea. Looking back that was probably the motivation for making us read that as our first book freshman year.
I remember reading Old Man and the Sea and wondering what the hype was about.