What is the author's style in Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck?

Language is used in some very interesting ways in this work, with the juxtapositions of those ways providing powerful, sometimes effectively jarring support for the thematically relevant sense that human beings are, at least in the work’s perspective, something apart from nature. Specifically, there are poetic descriptions of nature (most evident in the descriptions of the clearing by the pond in Parts 1 and 6) or of non-human existence (most evident in the descriptions/narratives of the barn in Part 5). There is a grace and beauty in these descriptive passages, a poetic warmth and capacity for quiet joy that, as mentioned, is a jarring but effective contrast to the coarseness of much of the dialogue (particularly between the ranch hands) and to the violence associated with many of the narrative’s key events.