OMAM Characters
- Created by: Emerald Dragon
- Created on: 24-03-16 16:48
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- Characters of OMAM
- George
- Main character
- Represents an every-day man
- Idealistic dreamer
- Parental role
- Cares about Lennie
- S1
- Clever man
- S6
- S2
- "small and quick, dark of face"
- Person to represent the reader
- For the reader to follow
- Lennie
- Represents people with mental disabilities
- Murders Curley's Wife by accident
- Acts like a child
- Under the power of George
- Innocent, but guilty
- A liability to George
- Often compared to animals like a "terrier", "bear" and "horse"
- A big man, but acts young
- "imitated George exactly"
- S1
- S5
- S4
- S2
- S6
- Candy
- Represents the elderly / physically disabled
- Submits to more powerful characters
- Victim of disrespect
- Desperate for help / a friend
- S4
- S2
- Foreshadow version of George (dog is Lennie)
- Helpless
- Helps George and Lennie get closer to their dream
- Is willing to give all his money to strangers
- Isn't close to anyone
- "old swamper"
- Crooks
- Represents racism / racial inequality
- Only black character - a minority
- One of the worst-off characters
- Loneliness
- Everything in his life is "broken"
- Misuses power when granted it
- Ignored by all characters
- Cyclical structure in S4
- Threatened and nobody backs him up
- Sometimes viewed as sub-human
- S4
- Slim
- "Prince of the ranch"
- Represents the ideal figure
- He is the true leader of the ranch, he has more power than Curley
- One of the few who doesn't seem oppressed in any way
- We are supposed to think he's perfect
- "Slim's opinion was law"
- Admired by everyone up to Steinbeck
- The reader's moral compass
- Contradict - supports dog's death, but still 'perfect'
- Supports George at the end
- S2
- S3
- S6
- The Boss
- Only seen once
- Detatched from other characters
- We know nothing about him
- Doesn't care about others
- Only present out of necessity
- Too busy to look after his workers (and son?)
- Isn't even involved when his daughter in law is killed, and doesn't chase after Lennie
- S2
- "fat-legged man"
- Curley
- Represents the rich / entitled in society
- Doesn't have any real respect
- Has less power than Slim
- S2
- S5
- Cares more about revenge than his wife's death or mourning
- Doesn't have anything to do
- Cruel to Lennie
- Has a Napoleon complex
- "a thin young man with a brown face, with brown eyes"
- No friends
- Curley's Wife
- Represents women
- Tells Lennie about her failed dream of being a movie star
- Young
- Described with "red", warns of danger
- Forced to be who she is
- Only known as Curley's Wife
- Victim of society
- Sexism
- Displays patriarchal, mysogynist society
- Carlson
- Cruel to Candy about his "stinky" dog
- Product of the new, transient lifestyle of America at the time
- Emotionless / lacking in empathy
- Unable to understand humans
- Cold-hearted, child that kicks animals
- Bored, resorts to bullying as a hobby
- Represents pressures of society which act upon Candy and others
- S3
- S6
- "A powerful, big-stomached man"
- Whit
- Dreams are possible
- Character who has friendship
- Defies the apparent social norm of loneliness
- S3
- Rarely ever seen
- Is only present when he has something to say
- Character is a plot point to show the fluctuation between good and bad
- Wants to share luck with others
- Selfless and happy for his friend
- Contradicts social norm of selfishness
- "A young labouring man"
- George
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