How the poem ‘to a mouse’ relates to the book of mice and men

Stanza from the poem ‘to a mouse’

But Mousie, thou are no thy-lane,

In proving foresight may be vain

The best laid schemes o’ Mice an’ Men,

Gang aft agley,

An’ lea’e us nought but grief an’ pain,

For promis’d joy! (1st quote)

The poem sums up how everyone in the story is suffering and not succeeding in their dreams. It also shows the lost of relationships within society being as they treat people on the basis of how much work they can do and not their personality’s. ‘For promis’d joy!’ this tells us that the dreams of the characters are unreachable which is demonstrated by the word promised. This quote also shows the characters are not joyful from not fulfilling their dreams.