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Of Mice and Men

Of Mice and Men. By John Steinbeck. Chapter One. Setting/Description? Intro – George & Lennie Characteristics? Why travel together? Significance of dream/future/“rabbits”?. Chapter Two. Characters: George Milton, Lennie Small Candy (old man w/ old dog; missing right hand)

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Of Mice and Men

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  1. Of Mice and Men By John Steinbeck

  2. Chapter One • Setting/Description? • Intro – George & Lennie • Characteristics? • Why travel together? • Significance of dream/future/“rabbits”?

  3. Chapter Two Characters: • GeorgeMilton, LennieSmall • Candy (old man w/ old dog; missing right hand) • Boss(interviews men; suspicious of G + L) • Curley (boxer; foreshadowing – pp. 25-27) • Curley’s Wife (flirtatious; a “tart”) • Slim (authority figure; royalty – p. 33) • Carlson (wants to shoot Candy’s dog) Lennie: “I don’ like this place, George. This ain’t no good place. I wanna get outa here” (32).

  4. Chapter Three • Light vs. Dark • Opening of chapter; also, p. 44 • George & Slim • George’s “confession” to Slim (Why Slim?) • Slim’s understanding, admiration (p. 39) • Shooting of Candy’s Dog: • No sense of Past (connection b/t Candy and dog) or Future (old age of men, Candy) • Loneliness: breaks up only other pair on ranch • Foreshadowing; dog symbolic of Candy?

  5. Description of Farm (pp. 57-58) • Difference(s) from Ch. 1? • Curley vs. Lennie • Why? Lennie is (1) big and (2) laughing • HAND • Various usages of this word? • Significance?

  6. Chapter Four • Crooks • Separated from others; aloof & distant (even proud!) • Lennie – innocent, no prejudice (68) • Crooks takes out anger on Lennie (72-73) • Theme of Loneliness: • Curley’s wife, too, is lonely (77-78) • Crooks is isolated due to Race • Candy is isolated due to Age • Lennieis isolated due to Intelligence • Curley’s wife is isolated due to Gender • Rest of Men? Drinking, playing cards (solitaire), and prostitutes (see pp. 52-53)

  7. Allegory • Characters act as symbols, as types • Characters are not fully developed (Round), but are, rather, one-dimensional (Flat) characters • Nicknames!

  8. Chapter Five • Friday night → Sunday afternoon • Aristotelian Unity? Good Friday → Easter Sunday? • Sun going down, increasing darkness • Symbolism of horseshoes? • Curley’s Wife • Sense of compassion; her story (88-89) • Description of corpse (92-93) • Issue of Carlson’s gun • Connections to earlier scenes: • Ideal vs. Real, Dreams (Curley’s wife, George & Lennie) • Violence (girl in Weed→Curley→Curley’s Wife) • “Soft things” (mouse→puppy→Curley’s wife) • “hide in brush” (foreshadowing)

  9. Chapter Six • Lennie’s two visions/hallucinations: • Aunt Clara (past? guilt?) • Rabbit (future? punishment/fear?) • Change in George’s speech/story to Lennie? • “wooden,” “monotonous, had no emphasis” (103) • Also, note irony in speech (106) • Men’s Reactions: • Curley: “Got him, by God.” • Slim: “Never you mind. A guy got to sometimes.” • Carlson: “How’d you do it?” • Slim & George go off together to “get a drink”: • Optimistic? Pessimistic?

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