1Peter Lisca, The Wide World of John Steinbeck, Rutgers University Press, 1958, p. 130.
2Louis Owens, John Steinbeck's Revision of America, Athens: University of Georgia Press, 1985, p. 100, p. 102, p. 4.
3William Goldhurst, "Of Mice and Men, John Steinbeck's Parable of the Curse of Cain" in The Short Novels of John Steinbeck ; Critical Essays with a Checklist to Steinbeck Criticism, Jackson Benson ed., Duke University Press, 1990,p. 56.
4Mark Spilda, "Of George and Lennie and Curley's Wife:Sweet Violence in Steinbeck's Eden" in The Short Novels of John Steinbeck ; Crtical Essays with a Checklist to Steinbeck Criticism, Duke University Press, 1990, p. 65.
