The text is realistic - racist comments and collequial references
Lennie is often compared and described as an animal.
Title of the book is from a Robert Burns poem. Tells us failure is inevitable.
Place names are real.
Weed - Where George and Lennie came from: Lennie commited a bad act. Like a weed the memory of it spoils their new life on the ranch. They had to leave weed, like them a weed is unwanted.
Soledad - means loneliness (theme)
Candy's dog is metaphoric to old age, when the dog get shot, Steinbeck is saying the old and weak get put down by society (metaphorically shot in the head).
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