The Importance of Family in‚ Of Mice and Men “In each family a story is playing itself out‚ and each family’s story embodies its hope and despair.” - Auguste Napier. This quote shows great meaning throughout the story Of Mice and Men By John Steinbeck. The story is about two “bindlestiffs” that travel together in search of work‚ their names are George Milton and Lennie Small from the Salinas Mountain region of California. Lennie is a “slow” person and couldn’t possibly function correctly with George
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In this metaphor‚ Candy is George and Candy’s dog is Lennie. When Lennie kills Curley’s wife George knows that Curley is going to kill Lennie. But he was not going to let “some stranger” shoot him. He was going to do that himself‚ that way he would die in peace instead of like Curley would have done. “I’ll kill the son-of-a-bitch myself. I’ll shoot ‘im in the guts.” (pg 96) Here‚ Curley makes it known to all that he was going to make Lennie suffer and George was not about to let him do that. Perhaps
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17-37) 17. Describe the setting of Chapter 2: 18. Describe Candy (the Swamper): 19. Describe the Boss: 20. Name two lies that George told his new boss: A) B) Explain why he lied: 21. Describe (in detail) Candy’s dog: 22. Describe Curley: 23. What was the main reason why Curley didn’t like Lennie? 24. How does Candy describe Curley’s wife? 25. Describe Curley’s wife as Steinbeck describes her: 26. Describe Slim: 27. Describe Carlson: 28. What happened to
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I am Candy and I often feel left out. I think I am the closet person to Lennie other than George. Me and Lennie are good friends‚ he never judges me‚ because I having only one hand. Basically I am a old man who has no place to go after the boss throws me out because I have one hand and I can’t help the other ranchers. My dream is to have some land that I can work on. My major fear is aging‚ that my age will make me useless and not helpful. To make my dream come true I offered Lennie and George
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manchild he was only cared about the fact that he got to care for and play with the rabbits‚ just like any child would. Later on in the story‚ Curley picked a fight because Lennie was supposedly laughing at him and Curley got his hand crushed‚ but “Lennie was jus’ scarit. He didn’t know what to do”(62). Lennie didn’t actually mean any harm but when Curley started beating on
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the book. When Lennie and George arrive on the farm and are shown their quarters Curley’s wife‚ on one of her looking for Curley’ routines‚ sees them both and immediately starts flirting with them. George gets angry when Lennie takes a shine to her and tell him to stay away and calls her a bitch’ and a rat-trap’ This view is also held by many of the workers on the farm. Curley instantly takes a dislike to Lennie when he firsts meets him just because he his much considerably larger that himself. This
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Bookreport on „Of Mice and Men“ The novel „Of Men and Mice“ was published in 1937 and is written by John Steinbeck. The first edition of the book has 107 pages and can be devided into six different sections. The novel plays during the Great Depression‚ in California. The Author himself grew up in a fertile agricultural valley about twentey-five miles from the Pacific Coast. The maine Charachters are two migrant workers‚ Lenni Small and George Milton. Two very different men‚ who
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is used to portray this. Throughout the book Curley’s wife is never referred to her name which is unknown. This suggests that she is a possession belonging to Curley. By not having her name mentioned; Curley’s wife remains distant even though she tells Lennie her life story as without a name she remains mysterious. Her marriage to Curley causes for her to be rejected by the ranch workers when she seeks out their attention and friendship. Therefore she is not only lonely but also isolated as there
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Crooks. On the other hand‚ this evokes sympathy as the origins of his cruel behaviour are made evident. We can infer that he is jealous and lonely that he wants to see someone else hurt just like he is. Curley and his wife have an unstable marriage‚ lacking in respect‚ compassion and communication. Curley believes that his wife is his possession and shows
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because Lennie‚ who isn’t the sharpest knife in the draw‚ went to feel a women’s red dress and she went screaming to the ranch owner that Lennie was trying to rape her. Once the protagonists George and Lennie arrive at the ranch in Soledad they meet Curley‚ the boss’s son‚ Candy‚ the swamper‚ and lots of other male ranch workers. They also meet Curley’s wife‚ the only female on the ranch. In Of Mice and Men Steinbeck presents Curley’s wife to us by describing to us as the reader her appearance and body
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