Of Mice and Men - Section 1
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- Created on: 12-05-16 19:12
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- Section 1
- Setting
- Like a stage setting, waiting their arrival.
- Detailed snapshot tells us others have stopped there.
- Varied, colorful description of rural California.
- Suggests Lennie and George are small, unimportant figures in the world.
- 'Sculptured stones' create mythic or timeless feel.
- Present tense contributes to timelessness.
- Rabbits come to have a great significance.
- Vivid images create warm, dry evening.
- Present tense contributes to timelessness.
- Like a stage setting, waiting their arrival.
- Lennie and George - Friends or Foes?
- Emphasizes similarity - wearing same clothes.
- Lennie - shapeless, bear like.
- Metaphor - makes bear like qualities clear.
- Delight in causing ripples implies simple minded nature.
- Metaphor - makes bear like qualities clear.
- George - small, defined features.
- Presented as angry and irritated.
- Feels responsible.
- Presented as angry and irritated.
- Dreams of owning farm reveals closeness.
- 'Bad things' 'hot water' 'pet' foreshadow later events.
- Lennie - shapeless, bear like.
- Emphasizes similarity - wearing same clothes.
- Setting
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