In the story, "Of Mice and Men" written by John Steinbeck the time period takes place in The Great Depression. "No mess at all, and when the end of the month come I could take my fifty bucks and go into town and get whatever I want," (11 Steinbeck). In this particular line, it inferences that the time period of the book occurred during The Great Depression because, of the value of money. Fifty dollars was seen as a huge amount of money that could buy whatever desires that a person could ever want however, nowadays with a healthy economy fifty dollars is seen as a mediocre amount. In addition to that, "I hoped we was gonna get a little stake together --- maybe a hundred dollars," (30 Steinbeck). During the Great Depression the income that the laborers received were very minimal and can be illustrated, in the book when the characters thought that a good stake would be a hundred dollars. A hundred dollars to them in the book would mean that they could literally buy anything that they wanted since, in the previous line fifty dollars could quench any cravings they had. However, as The Great Depression passed, although to some one hundred dollars is seen as a lot to some but, in terms of working hundred dollars would not be a stake. In conclusion, The Great Depression was depicted in the story and can be reflected into how little amounts of money were greatly treasured.