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OF MICE AND MENby John Steinbeck What is a Bindle stiff- A Bindle stiff is a single migrant laborer, generally white males, recruited to work on a temporary basis during the harvest season in the 1930’s. Life of a bindle stiff The term bindle stiff emerged to describe these migrant workers who carried their belongings in a bundle and moved from place to place. Daily life Average pay $2.50 - $3.00 a day Obviously this is not enough to build any type of savings As a result, these workers remained trapped in their low paying and dead end unproductive positions. Ranch life Most of these bindle stiffs were farm labor that drifted from ranch to ranch living in awful accommodations picking the harvest frantically from sunrise to sunset. Ranches typically had a bunkhouse, and a cook house for the laborers. Bindle stiffs lived in the bunkhouse which they shared with other hired hands. Nights involved homemade entertainment on the confines of the ranch. They might venture into to town only 1 night a week because towns were usually too far away and they really didn’t have any transportation or money to spend anyway. Of Mice and Men The novella focuses on these white single migrant workers before the arrival of the migrant families during the Great Depression. The Novella shows the men’s hopes and their feelings of hopelessness that was commonly felt by bindle stiffs. This class of people were previously ignored by society, yet they numbered over 125,000 men during this time in our history. Clearly, this large group was worthy of national attention!!!! In fact at the end of the novella, Carlson demonstrates he is a participant in a faulty society when he asks Curley, ”Now what …suppose is eatin’ them two guys.” He clearly is oblivious about love, mercy, relationships or problems currently plaguing our society at that time. So Steinbeck greatly influenced public awareness of these Migrant families and bindle stiffs’ poverty and despair with his work.