the men who work at the ranch travel alone besides George and Lennie. This makes the other men curious yet also suspicious of their motives. Many of the workmen and characters at the ranch can be seen as lonely in the way that they are separated from their families and civilisation‚ however‚ the characters which are the main victims of loneliness in Of Mice and Men are Curley’s wife‚ George and Crooks. John Steinbeck portrays Curley’s Wife as the only female on the ranch and gives the reader
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hiding out in a lonely canyon in the western Panamints. With nothing much to do their talk turned to easy money‚ and the men decided to search the canyon for the Lost Gunsight lode. Logic would dictate that this was a waste of time and effort. Jim Martin had never passed this way. Concerned with his very survival‚ he would not have crossed the mountains here‚ in their highest and most rugged section. Nor‚ wherever he crossed‚ would he have doubled back into this rugged canyon. But the three robbers
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backgrounds of life‚ but in actuality they are alike in many fashions. Crooks and Curley’s wife lived simple lives on the ranch and their parents placed restrictions on them when they were younger. Crooks was the only black man on the entire ranch and had a specialized job that he could only do. He lived a life of solitude without different connections that everyone else on the ranch had like the following: playing cards‚ playing horse shoes‚ and sleeping in the bunk house. Crooks says‚ “’I ain’t wanted
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In the passage Of Mice and Men‚ Steinbeck uses imagery to show the plain and basic bunkhouse and how the ranch is isolated to show the lack of identity the men have. “Long‚ rectangular building” and “whitewashed‚ floor unpainted” indicate that it is the place of inhabitance of George and Lennie and how it is not really there home but it is somewhere where they are just staying. The surroundings are a representation that the inhabitance of the bunkhouse is ‘cold’ and ‘not homely like but it serves
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little to look forward to as migrant ranch hands. They travel from ranch to ranch with all their belongings in a bundle‚ looking for work for fifty dollars a month. If a man is good at what they do in that job‚ he might be kept on at the ranch indefinitely and wind up as Candy does‚ old and crippled‚ always waiting until he is no longer useful. George in the beginning of the
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makeup. The men on the ranch say she plays around and they call her names such as “tart” or “jail bait”. She is defined by her role in the book‚ Curley’s wife. In other words‚ Curley’s property. She is never given a name throughout the book‚ only being referred to as Curley’s wife. However‚ as the book goes on‚ the reader begins to learn the complexities of Curley’s wife. It is revealed that she has a dream of her own‚ to be in the movies‚ and hates being tied down on the ranch. “ ‘Nother time I met
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One place that I will never forget is the ranch my uncle (my grandmother’s brother‚ in Mexican culture we refer to them as uncles) built and owns. It lays on a thousand acres of land‚ just outside Toluca‚ the capital of the state of Mexico. Rancho Feshi‚ which means “singing waterfall”‚ is a trout farm. There are many different deep-water‚ man-made rectangular ponds where thousands of trout are bred for later dining. The ranch is famous for its trout and many people come from all over Mexico either
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sought after for one thing and one thing only! That one day I would have my own land‚ that one day I would have my own peace and solitude to myself without having to look after horses for the rest of my life. I have seen tons of people come to this ranch and dreamed of getting their own land but all of them have not succeeded. Don’t you think an old disabled guy like me deserve a land of his own? Ever since I was a little kid my childhood was a treasured‚ which was shared with my wonderful dad and
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practicality‚ and aesthetic value in his designs and everything else that makes up the basics of practical building. Such characteristics were stunningly manifest in his recent project in Pomona‚ California in the construction of the new Diamond Ranch High School (Figures 1-2)‚ one of the projects that helped him secure his status as a Pritzker Laureate and further established his place as an artist who defies standard practice as well as well as defines it. Of course it would seem that for such
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Lennie is carelessly talking with the ranch owner’s wife about the future ranch that he and George are going to own. Lennie and the wife have a disagreement about the animals that are going to be roaming on Lennie and George’s future farm so he starts getting physical and breaks her neck which eventually kills her. Once the farm owner finds out‚ he is so devastated to the point that he shoots Lennie. Lennie is the character of foolishness and immaturity while the ranch owner represents violence and power
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