provides
- security
- comfort
- motivation, great depression
- source of stability, dustbowl, transitory lifestyle
- 1/3 america unemployed
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george
'says rhythmically'
- bedtime story for lennie
'get a little place and live on the fatta the land'
- independence, american dream
2 of 12
lennie
'george is never gonna let me'
- motivation
'tend the rabbits'
- focus, out of trouble
3 of 12
candy
doesn't feel valued on the ranch
wants to join in
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crooks
'work for nothing'
- racism
- oppression
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george, lennie, candy and crooks
- 'george and lennies survival is a necessity for a time of darkness and despair'
- dream is destroyed when lennie kills curleys wife
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slim
'prince of the ranch'
- accepted his enviroment
- content
opposite of curley
- curley listens to slim
final authority
- candy turned to slim
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bill tenner
'thats him'
- whit is proud and remembers his dream
- achieved dream
8 of 12
carlson
- content
- happy enough to be employed
- reality of american dream
- great depression
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curleys wife
'the american dream is no more than a fantasy'
- 'with the shows'
- always wants a better life
- wants to be free from the 'mean person'
- still believes
- makeup and curled hair, glamorous
- clings on to the life she wants instead of accepting the one sh
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curleys wife
- escape and distraction
- miserable life
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conclusion
- everyone has had/has a dream
- gives everyone motivation
- gives lennie comfort
- gives crooks and curleys wife a distraction from their oppression in society
- isolation and social exclusion still has as much relevance as it did in 1930's America
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Other cards in this set
Card 2
Front
'says rhythmically'
- bedtime story for lennie
'get a little place and live on the fatta the land'
- independence, american dream
Back
george
Card 3
Front
'george is never gonna let me'
- motivation
'tend the rabbits'
- focus, out of trouble
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