Of mice and men

Question: discuss the theme of power and powerlessness in the novel of mice and men.

Themes:

Part1 - Great depression and the american dream:

During the this time in america the econemy was very bad, their was mass unemployment due to factors such as the 1929 wall street crash which lead to hyper inflation meaning money became worth less.---- this made people power less as they had to earn more money to maintain their lifestyles and working people had no control of their pay......also this made people powerless as the people who where rich or did not…