"Of Mice And Men" Compare the opening of the novel "Of Mice and Men" with the opening of the film of the same name, using the language of media. The opening of the novel is a panorama to set the scene. Steinback deliberately illustrates a picture with the words he uses to show how he would stage this story as a theatre production. He does this intentionally at the start of each chapter. At the …showed first 75 words of 1968 total…

…showed last 75 words of 1968 total…find this a good representation of the novel because the opening scenes of the film and novel are totally different, and if you didn't know that they were from the same story, you might think that they were two different stories. The novel describes the scene and lets us get to know the main characters which make us sympathize with them whereas the film goes straight into the action and we sympathize with the girl.