Power
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- Created on: 20-04-16 11:57
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- Power
- Social economic
- The Boss
- Owner, decided who works on the ranch
- High and powerful
- "High heeled boots"
- Spurs on his boots suggest that he does not do physical work
- Superior and dominant
- "High heeled boots"
- High and powerful
- Owner, decided who works on the ranch
- Candy
- Given compensation when he lost his hand
- Saves his money
- Makes the dream farm into a reality
- Saves his money
- Given compensation when he lost his hand
- Curley
- Bosses son and he abuses his status
- Has no respect from the other men
- Hasn't earned anything
- "Won't ever get canned cause his old man's the boss"
- Bosses son and he abuses his status
- Curley's wife
- Earned it through marrage
- Compared to models and actresses
- Shows of her wealth in her appreances
- "Heavily made up face"
- Shows of her wealth in her appreances
- The Boss
- Intellectual
- Slim
- Described at the settler of all arguments
- All the men respect him and go to him with their issues
- "His ear heard more than was said to him"
- His intelligence lies beyond knowledge but his ability to make the right decisons
- Convinced Curley to lie about his injury
- Described at the settler of all arguments
- George
- He is described as a small but smart man
- He is Lennie conscience
- Shows he is aware of his surroundings and is always thinking
- he uses his judgment to decided what will be best for Lennie
- like at the end when he decided to shoot lennie
- Crooks
- he has books and the civil right code in his bunk
- Because od his isolation he has developed a unique intelligence
- His ability to manipulate others shows his power of persuation
- he has books and the civil right code in his bunk
- Slim
- Seductive
- Curley's wife
- The olny thing she has is her looks
- So she uses them to manipulate the other men, via flirting
- to get attention from other men and her husband
- That's why she makes herself up so much
- So she uses them to manipulate the other men, via flirting
- She is not seen as a person but a possession
- The olny thing she has is her looks
- Curley's wife
- Racial
- Everyone except crooks
- The books in set in the 1930s, when racism was normal
- The other men don't let crooks into their bunk house
- in Section 4 Candy admits it is the first time he has every been in Crook's room
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- The other men don't let crooks into their bunk house
- The books in set in the 1930s, when racism was normal
- Everyone except crooks
- Physical
- Curley
- We learn from Candy that he used to be a boxer
- "Curley's pretty handy"
- Because of his height he is self-conscious and pick on bigger man
- "He alla time picking fights with big guys"
- Because of this he didn't like Lennie from the start and always threatened him
- In the fight scene is when Curley loses the physical power he had
- This damaged his ego
- Why he was so desperate to shoot Lennie in the guts
- Told people he got his hand caught in a machine
- This damaged his ego
- In the fight scene is when Curley loses the physical power he had
- We learn from Candy that he used to be a boxer
- Lennie
- due to his size and strength, he has the most power
- But He never learns his own strength
- Which is what always gets him into trouble
- crushes mice with a brush of his finger and kills a puppy with a light smack
- "He could bust every bone in my body"
- Shows how much physical power Lennie has over George
- But He never learns his own strength
- due to his size and strength, he has the most power
- Candy is the only one to show no physical power at all
- Because he is old and only has one hand
- Curley
- Social economic
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