Where does the title Mice And Men come from?

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Answer 1

As the first person said, it's from a poem, but there's slightly more than that. The phrase "best laid plans of mice and men" has come to be a bit of a cliche that basically means no matter how much you plan, there's always a chance for something to go wrong. In the book, Lenny and George make all those plans about buying a farm and "living off the fat of the land," but in the end it all goes south.

Answer 2

"To A Mouse, on Turning Her Up in Her Nest, with the Plough" is a Scots poem written by Robert Burns in 1785, and was included in the Kilmarnock volume. As the legend goes, Burns wrote the poem after, as the poem suggests, turning up the winter nest of a mouse on his farm. Another theory of the meaning of this poem is that the farmer turning over the nest of the mouse symbolizes the English (the farmer) oppressing the Scottish (the mouse). In the book, Of Mice and Men, the migrant workers (mice) were oppressed by the farmer.

Answer 3

From http://www.newi.ac.uk/englishresources/workunits/ks4/fiction/ofmicemen/llshort/factsheet.html

"The title of the novel comes from a poem by the Scottish poet Robert Burns (1759 - 96):

The best laid schemes o' mice and men
Gang aft agley [often go wrong]
And leave us nought but grief and pain
For promised joy!"

The poem was To a Mouse. The mouse had built its nest in a seemingly barren field, thinking it would be undisturbed. Then the field was plowed...it was a sort of apology to the mouse for destroying its home, which the mouse had thought so secure.