Of Mice and Men chapter overviews
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- Created on: 09-05-16 17:34
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- Of Mice and Men
- Chapter Two
- Begins with scene setting
- The men have few personal possessions, showing that they move on often
- No permenance
- 8 simple bunks against a white washed wall
- Small square table for playing cards (solitaire)
- Bed bug killer left behind by Whitey
- Blacksmith who "just wanted to move" - Shows that men come and go
- The men have few personal possessions, showing that they move on often
- Meet Candy who is repetitively described as "old"
- Candy tells George and Lennie about Crooks, the black stable buck and his opinion on the boss, Curley and his wife. This gives us some information about the characters
- See similarities between George and Lennie and Candy and his dog -0 the company and closeness
- "ThisCurley punk is gonna get hurt if he messes around with Lennie" Foreshadowing what is going to happen between Curley and Lennie
- Carlson and slim are both introduced as friendly
- Lennie is dangerous because his innocence is combined with a brute force that he doesn't realise her has
- Candy's dog, Lulu, has a name which gives him higher status than Curley's wife
- Begins with scene setting
- Chapter Three
- Begins with scene setting
- George can talk freely with Slim
- Events in Weed shows Lennie's capacity for causing trouble
- Lennie is unable to function within the boundaries of normal human interaction
- Girl in Weed- foreshadowing what is going to happen with Curley's Wife
- Lennie brings puppy into the barn. George says "you'll kill him, the first thing you know"
- Foreshadowing
- 3 key episodes: - the shooting of Candy's dog , - Candy overhearing The Dream and the crushing of Curley's hand
- Lennie holds on to Curley's hand like the girls dress
- Chapter Four
- In Crooks' room
- He is a permanent worker so has accumulated more possessions
- All of the isolated characters together
- Racism against Crooks- "'Cause I'm black. They play cards in there but I can't because I'm black"
- Crooks taunts Lennie by saying George won't come back
- Curley's wife says the menleft behind "all the weak ones".
- But she has also been left behind because even her husband of two weeks is at the brothel
- One of the weak ones?
- Candy stands up to her, made confident by the talk about The Dream
- Curley's wife threatens Crooks and he shrinks back because she knows his threat can ring true
- But she has also been left behind because even her husband of two weeks is at the brothel
- It's a cyclical chapter- it ends as it stars
- We feel sorry for the prejudice against Crooks as the chapter ends
- In Crooks' room
- Chapter Five
- Set in the barn
- Atmosphere is calm and tranquil until the storm of death
- Lennie left alone with the dead puppy- foreshadowing what happens with Curley's wife
- Lennie does not intend to kill, he does not know his own strength
- Curley's wife- "I get awful lonely"
- We learn about her Hollywood dream
- "She went on with her story quickly, before she could be interrupted"- desperate to be heard
- She's trapped on the ranch, she can't move on like the men
- "She went on with her story quickly, before she could be interrupted"- desperate to be heard
- We learn about her Hollywood dream
- Curley's wife's death
- Her limp body was like Curley's when his hand was crushed- "her body flopped like a fish"
- To Lennie it's just another bad thing, he does not realise the severity of it
- The barn is alive even though a death has just taken place
- The Dream has died with Curley's wife
- Candy cries over Curley's wife but not because she is dead. His hope has died with her, His dream is now shattered too
- Set in the barn
- Chapter Six
- Cyclical ending
- Atmosphere of calm
- Lennie appears to be like small child as he worries over what George is going to say over his "bad thing"
- Lennie imagines Aunt Clara and a giant rabbit- representative of his obsession with tending the rabbits
- His hallucinations play on the fear that George will really leave him this time
- George shoots Lennie- his moral responsibility
- Chapter Two
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