Candy’s dog is going to be shot in the back of the head because Carlson doesn’t like the smell and Slim isn’t a hero. Slim makes choices that he thinks will benefit the
You leave her be.” (Pg 32) Through this quote Steinbeck reveals sexism between Curley 's wife and the guys on the ranch, on the grounds that George calls Curley 's wife a bitch, which is used as an insult towards her. On top of George calling her a jailbait he is assuming that she will get men into trouble for being nice/flirtatious with them. In conjunction with, Curley 's wife is
The book Of Mice and Men takes place in salinas valley on a ranch during the great depression. The book mainly focuses on the life of Lennie and george. Lennie and george have known each other for a very long time and they are traveling companions. Lennie has some sort of mental disability and this hinders how him and george earn money and get work. Lennie’s mental disability creates problems for him along with his strength.
Invisible rules and barriers of society have always affected the way people look or think about one another. Society has invisible rules on what or who is acceptable and what is not. In the story Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck, there are characters who isolate themselves from the rest due to social barriers. Of Mice and Men is about two best friends, George and Lennie going to work at a ranch to make enough money to buy a farm. The story follows mainly those two characters, but also adds the interaction with them and other characters to show how lonely each character was during that time.
Lennie has done so much to ruin his world in the book. When Lennie gets to a new place to live, he accidently kills mice, a puppy, and a person, but says he 's sorry which makes him seem sympathetic. Steinbeck was successful at making Lennie sympathetic because he cares about everything and will always be there for George but other characters keep sizing up to him and he doesn’t know
Loneliness In the novel Of Mice and Men, by John Steinbeck, there are two men George Milton and Lennie Small who share the same dream of owning their own ranch someday. This novel was written during the Great Depression where many people would go out and find work. Represented by the characters George and Lennie the two men show the hardship of finding work. George and Lennie were two lucky men who had the companionship many others did not. Other men like Carlson, Crooks, Candy, and Slim would go out on their own and would often be very lonely as they didn’t have any family with them.
Instead of talking to her and expressing his feelings, he is acting ludicrous just to get her attention and impress her. Tom does not know how to handle his emotions He is not realizing the impact of all those decisions in his life and how people look at him. If he always terrible decisions he will get nowhere in life and people with think poorly about him as basically another Huckleberry Finn. Tom is very narcissistic and is not caring about others feeling and what they want he is all about
The instincts of bear signify brutality and little intellectual mind as Steinbeck 's imagery about Lennie portrays nature in its cruelty to the weak. Lennie’s comprehension of the world takes a long route from killing a mouse to strangling Curley 's wife, brutality at the end resulted in pushing Lennie into then fears of the world, as everyone is to fence against each other. Physical violence ties heavily to brutality
Without Georges and Lennie’s friendship no one would realize this but because George and Lennie defend each other Candy’s isolation is shown. Steinbeck includes Candy to show that for the ranch workers the American Dream doesn’t work. Candy should be living in the countryside having a nice quiet end to his life according to the dream but he is still working at the ranch as a sweeper. Lower then a ranch
His behaviour and mindset following the revelation that his dream is no longer obtainable clearly indicate that George no longer believes in his dream, he has acknowledged the fact that his dream is no longer attainable. When George discovers that Lennie has killed Curley’s wife, he ignores Candy’s pleas to maintain hope that their dream can come true, rather he begins to envision himself living the life of a lonely migrant farm worker. A quote that illustrates this belief can be found on page 93 where George states “I’ll work my month an’ I’ll take my fifty bucks an’ I’ll stay all night in some lousy cat house. Or I’ll set in some pool room till ever’body goes home. An’ then I’ll come back an’ work another month an’ I’ll have fifty bucks more.” Here John Steinbeck uses repetition to make it abundantly clear to the reader that George has forsaken his dream, and chosen to become the lonely farm worker he once felt empathy towards.