Of Mice and Men characters
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- Of Mice & Men: Basic character analysis
- LENNIE
- CURLEY
- "Tightly curled hair." - Likewise to his name
- GEORGE
- Of Mice & Men: Basic character analysis
- LENNIE
- CURLEY
- "Tightly curled hair." - Likewise to his name
- Wants to belong somewhere
- Uses the same gun that Carlson uses to shoot Candy's dog. Reflects both relationships as the same
- Of Mice & Men: Basic character analysis
- "One stayed behind the other." - Shows Lennie as a follower, not a leader
- "Bear dragged his paws" "Drinking like a horse." - Portrayed as animals, possibly because he's not as intelligent as a human
- "Denim trousers and coats" - A migrant worker, poor
- GEORGE
- Wants to belong somewhere
- Uses the same gun that Carlson uses to shoot Candy's dog. Reflects both relationships as the same
- GEORGE
- "Restless eyes" - He's alert, can size people up
- He's intelligent, clean, has standards of living, neat, pragmatic. Also, could possibly be seen as skeptical as he doesn't trust many people (keeps to himself)
- "I ain't gonna let 'em hurt Lennie." - George wants to kill Lennie out of love and mercy, not revenge and hatred like Curley
- SLIM
- "Hatchet face was ageless." - He has sharp defined features. This could also be a delve into why anyone of any age can talk and identify with him
- Could be seen as having more power over Curley. "You caught that hand in a machine."
- A jerkline skinner
- SLIM
- "Hatchet face was ageless." - He has sharp defined features. This could also be a delve into why anyone of any age can talk and identify with him
- Could be seen as having more power over Curley. "You caught that hand in a machine."
- SLIM
- "Blue jeans and denim jacket." - Shows he's just like the other ranch workers
- "Gravity in his manor." - He moves with importance
- "All talk stopped when he spoke." - Although he only a ranch worker, people respect him and he has a certain authority
- "Word is law." - Leader figure of the men, has a value. Another quote to use would be "Helluva nice fella."
- "Come we'll get a drink." - Says after George has shot Lennie, compassionate. Also, all through the novel, Slim evokes confidence in George and empathizes with him
- "Prince of the Ranch." - Accessible, but also hierarchy of power.
- "Heeled boots." - Like the boss, and to make him taller
- "Glove on his left hand." - Candy makes a rumor it's to keep it soft for his wife ;)
- "Well nex' time you answer when you're spoke." - Demanding, but also has an inferiority complex because he's saying it to Lennie who is a big guy
- "Curley ain't givin' knowbody a chance." - Violent and thinks for himself, doesn't comprimise
- "Always picking fights."
- "He hates big guys." - Inferiority complex, little man syndrome. Likes to win
- Curley's wife
- "Full rouged lips with wide spaced eyes...heavily made up." - Has makeup on, when the only people to see her are the men around the ranch
- Curley's wife
- Curley's wife
- "Red dresses." - A colour of flirtatiousness and lust
- "I never get to talk to anybody." - She's oppressed like crooks
- "Can't blame a person for looking." - Likes attention and is flirtatious
- "Tart." - She's judged by the guys
- Just the same Curley's wife, shows how she's shown as a possession and not necessarily a person.
- "I like to talk to somebody once in a while." - Wants friends, very lonley
- "They left all the weak ones." - When commenting on how Lennie, Candy and Crooks were left at home. Wants to make herself feel superior, when she was also left at home.
- "Huge man, shapeless of face." - opposite of George
- He's physically a man, but mentally a child.
- "Where are we going?" - Relies on George, like a dog and his master much like Candy and his dog
- "I get to tend the rabbits." - Has a lifelong dream and gets angry at anything that could possibly get in the way of it.
- Childish - "Lennie's lip quivered, tears started in his eyes."
- "I'm not mad, I'm never mad at you." - This shows he's calm under pressure.
- "You goddamn crazy *******!" - Uses rough language like workers and men of the ranch would
- "You done good." - Like a parent to Lennie, guiding him
- CROOKS
- Ponders on his dream to be equal but didn't actually achieve it
- Oppressed, so oppresses
- I could get you strung up on a tree so fast it ain't even funny." - Curley's wife humiliates and asserts her slither of power over him
- Called Crooks because of his crippled back
- CROOKS
- Ponders on his dream to be equal but didn't actually achieve it
- Oppressed, so oppresses
- I could get you strung up on a tree so fast it ain't even funny." - Curley's wife humiliates and asserts her slither of power over him
- CROOKS
- 2nd class citizen because he's black and disabled
- Could be seen as intelligent as he reads
- "What if George don't come back?" - He taunts Lennie, as he's never been able to assert his power over someone till now
- "Nobody got no right to be here but me!" - To Lennie when he goes in Crooks' bunk in the barn
- CANDY
- "Bristly white whiskers." - Shows he's an old man
- CANDY
- CANDY
- "Carrying a broom." - A worker, but different from the others who buck barley
- "The boss is a good fella." - Tries to see the best in everyone
- "Had him since he was a pup." - Proud of his god, even though others aren't, much like George and Lennie
- "A guy on a ranch don't listen or ast no questions." - Truthful, but shows the outcome of loneliness, not talking or listening
- "I ain't got no relatives or nothin'." - Candy is lonely as his dog is dead so he wants to join Lennie and George's dream
- When Candy looks at Curley's wife dead in the hay, he says "Poor *******." Showing us that he believes the true victim is Lennie
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