Foreshadowing
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In Of Mice and Men John Steinbeck implements the stylistic device of foreshadowing in many ways. Foreshadowing is when the writer alludes to future events without coming out and saying it. In Of Mice and Men Lennie is a prime example of foreshadowing in a conversation he had with George after they met Curley's wife for the first time. "I don't like this place George. This ain't no good place. I wanna get outta here" (Steinbeck 32). Lennie is showing foreshadowing by saying "This is ain't no good place George." thus making the reader know that something bad will happen on the ranch. In Burton Rascoe's literary criticism he evaluates on Steinbeck’s use of foreshadowing. "Anyone with any deductive sense at all needs to read only five pages of the novel Of Mice and Men to discover the "plot," to know what is going to happen. The intelligent reader knows that poor Lennie is going to "do a bad thing again" as he did before..." Steinbeck's emphasis on foreshadowing gives the reader many obvious hints to what will happen in the book. Although this takes away a lot of the suspense it adds to the overall sad tone of the book. This is because knowing what will happen to all these poor characters gives the reader a sense of dread that follows you through out the entire book. So all in all Steinbeck uses foreshadowing in an expert manner that sets the entire tone of the book.