Abstract:

Of Mice and Men is a work of the famous American writer John Steinbeck. This paper aims to analyze the land complex in Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck to enhance the better understanding of this novel. In this dissertation, the author analyzes the land complex in the novel first by defining the land complex, introducing the origin of land complex of John Steinbeck, and then by explaining the manifestation of land complex in this novel and the influence of land complex on the artistic effect as well.

Key words: John Steinbeck; Of Mice and Men; land complex

摘要：

《鼠与人》是20世纪美国著名作家约翰斯坦•贝克的作品。本文旨在分析小说《鼠与人》中的乡土情结，以达到进一步加深读者对此部小说理解的目的。本文笔者试图对乡土情结进行了一番释义，并深入探究了约翰斯坦•贝克乡土情结的源渊以及乡土情结在小说中的体现来揭示乡土情结对小说在艺术效果方面所产生的积极影响。

关键词：约翰斯坦贝克；《鼠与人》； 乡土情结

1. Introduction
1.1 John Steinbeck
John Steinbeck(1902-1968) is one of the most important American writer of the twentieth century. He was born in Salinas, a small rural town in California, no more than a frontier settlement, set in some of the world’s most fertile land. When he was young, he read widely especially in English classical literature under the influence of his mother, a schoolmaster. Supporting himself from childhood, he worked at a variety of manual jobs: ranch hand, trainee carpenter, painter, laborer and chemist, which offered him first-hand materials, observation of the attitudes; manners and language of the working people, in particular, the migrant farm workers. Under the influence of his enormous reading and his special life experience, he tends to observe and depict man’s various living condition in poor survival situation. In his creation, he internalizes his focus on material poverty into his unique way of experiencing the world which helps him successfully describe man’s unconquerable dignity in huge intolerable pain. American land and working people are popular themes in his works where he speaks for the poor and defends for them.