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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This comment reminded me that it's actually more dangerous to work in a mental hospital than a prison. Mental patients are just as violent as prison inmates, if not more so. The difference is that people are mostly okay with the brutal measures necessary to control a prison population. They're far more constrained in what they can do to violent mental patients because they don't want to end up on the front page of the news for "cruelty" to the disabled.
I worked in a nursing home for a spell.
This is true about some dementia patients too--they WILL get violent. I had to wrangle one.