early stages of the book‚ she is presented through the eyes of the other characters‚ in very unflattering terms like "tramp" and "bitch". Only innocent Lennie has a less negative response‚ "She’s perty‚" for which George hastily reprimands her. George fears that she will get them into trouble and calls her "jailbait": he has seen too many women like her‚ married women who seduce men and get them into trouble. Curley’s wife is aware of the power of her attractiveness and aims to use it to her advantage:
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Of Mice and Men is a novel set on a ranch in the Salinas Valley in California‚ during the Great Depression of the 1930s by John Steinbeck. It was the first work to bring Steinbeck’s national recognition as a writer. The book addresses the real hopes and dreams of working-class America. Steinbeck’s short novel raises the lives of the poor and dispossessed to a higher‚ symbolic level. The title suggests that plans of Mice and Men often go awry‚ a reference to Robert Burn’s poem "To a Mouse." Since
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Curley’s Wife is character that is portrayed by discrimination. In the novel‚ of Mice and Men‚ she is the only character that is a woman and does not have a name. This tells us that during this time‚ women were thought less of and considered less important because back in the 1930s‚ women were discriminated from jobs and had to stay at home and take care of the house on the ranch. On the ranch‚ she is also the only women and she does not have anyone willing to talk to her either. There is not much
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Of Mice and Men In the story Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck it describes that these two immigrant farmworkers‚ Lennie and George traveling together. The reason that these two are together is because Lennie Smalls: one of the characters is mentally impaired and George knew his Aunt Clar. Aunt Clar had asked George to watch Lennie for her cause it was her time to go... These two were always moving around place to place‚ to get money. These two were dreaming of buying a land together. This was
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John Steinbeck’s “Of mice and men” Of Mice and Men is set along the Salinas River a few miles south of Soledad in the fallen world of the Salinas Valley‚ which Steinbeck places "east of Eden" the Promised Land is only a painful and illusory dream. This land is populated by "sons of Cain"‚ men doomed to walk alone. One of the major themes that comes from this is loneliness‚ or fear of apartness. One of the themes of Of Mice and Men is that men fear loneliness‚ that they need someone
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Explore how Steinbeck presents and develops the character of George In the well known novel “Of Mice and Men” written by John Steinbeck‚ the first character you meet is George‚ he is immediately seen as the leader of the pair‚ George and Lennie. He is “small and quick‚ dark of face” and is identified as a worker‚ because of the clothes he wears and possessions he carries‚ for example‚ his “tight blanket roll” and his hard wearing “denim” clothes. George is normally seen as being angry most of
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How does Steinbeck create sympathy for Candy and his position on the ranch? Of Mice and Men is a novel written by John Steinbeck‚ set in America in the Great Depression of the 1930s. The main characters in the book are the clever‚ quick George‚ and his slow‚ child-like companion Lennie. They are itinerant workers who find work on a ranch in California’s Salinas Valley. There are many characters on the ranch‚ including Curley‚ Slim‚ and Crooks. However‚ the first ranch worker George and Lennie
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Although the film Of Mice and Men directed by Gary Sinise is based off the book Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck‚ the film has some differences that shifts the readers/viewers opinion of the characters in a different way. Curley’s wife is looked at in a different perspective by the viewers in the film by the senses that were added and deleted from the novel. In the book the reader sees her as mean and full of herself but in the film Curley’s wife doesn’t seem mean she appears like she is looking
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In the novel Of Mice and Men‚ John Steinbeck tells the story of two best friends living life on the run‚ struggling to keep a steady job working as ranch hands. George and Lennie are faced with many obstacles throughout the course of this book‚ beginning with Lennie and his slow mindedness‚ George is always side by side with Lennie‚ practically holding his hand to coach him through life. The story begins with the two men running away from Weed‚ the ranch they were previously employed at; we later
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by. In John Steinbeck’s novel "Of Mice and Men" loneliness and the need for companionship is shown in ways such as Crooks with discrimination‚ Curley’s wife‚ and conflict. Crooks was discriminated against countless times in the novel “Of Mice and Men”‚ making him lonely and at loss of friendship. Some people may say that black people couldn’t of been treated the same as white people during the time of the Great Depression. Not
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