small and sharp man who has been Lennie guardian ever since his Aunt Clara did. He gives Lennie directions to follow; they are best friends and travel together. He and Lennie dream of having their own farm and working for themselves rather than a ranch owner. George eventually kills Lennie to prevent a stranger from handling the task; the dream of a farm also dies with Lennie. c. Lennie: -Lennie is large and very powerful‚ such as a bear or a dog. He also enjoys petting soft objects like fur and
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trusted by his fellow ranch workers and even has Curley following his orders. Slim advises George and becomes George’s confidant. As he acts as George’s confidant he subsequently becomes the moral arbiter of the play‚ he is the main character who can recognize things from right and wrong. Slim is a special character because he speaks to everyone from Crooks to Candy and even Curley’s wife. In the novel the idea of hierarchy is important‚ as Slim is trusted by the whole ranch he is the one who is at
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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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