Of Mice and Men characters

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Of Mice & Men: Basic character analysis
- LENNIE
- CURLEY
  - "Tightly curled hair." - Likewise to his name
GEORGE
- Of Mice & Men: Basic character analysis
  - LENNIE
  - CURLEY
    - "Tightly curled hair." - Likewise to his name
- Wants to belong somewhere
- Uses the same gun that Carlson uses to shoot Candy's dog. Reflects both relationships as the same
"One stayed behind the other." - Shows Lennie as a follower, not a leader
"Bear dragged his paws" "Drinking like a horse." - Portrayed as animals, possibly because he's not as intelligent as a human
"Denim trousers and coats" - A migrant worker, poor
- GEORGE
  - Wants to belong somewhere
  - Uses the same gun that Carlson uses to shoot Candy's dog. Reflects both relationships as the same
"Restless eyes" - He's alert, can size people up
He's intelligent, clean, has standards of living, neat, pragmatic. Also, could possibly be seen as skeptical as he doesn't trust many people (keeps to himself)
"I ain't gonna let 'em hurt Lennie." - George wants to kill Lennie out of love and mercy, not revenge and hatred like Curley
SLIM
- "Hatchet face was ageless." - He has sharp defined features. This could also be a delve into why anyone of any age can talk and identify with him
- Could be seen as having more power over Curley. "You caught that hand in a machine."
A jerkline skinner
- SLIM
  - "Hatchet face was ageless." - He has sharp defined features. This could also be a delve into why anyone of any age can talk and identify with him
  - Could be seen as having more power over Curley. "You caught that hand in a machine."
"Blue jeans and denim jacket." - Shows he's just like the other ranch workers
"Gravity in his manor." - He moves with importance
"All talk stopped when he spoke." - Although he only a ranch worker, people respect him and he has a certain authority
"Word is law." - Leader figure of the men, has a value. Another quote to use would be "Helluva nice fella."
"Come we'll get a drink." - Says after George has shot Lennie, compassionate. Also, all through the novel, Slim evokes confidence in George and empathizes with him
"Prince of the Ranch." - Accessible, but also hierarchy of power.
"Heeled boots." - Like the boss, and to make him taller
"Glove on his left hand." - Candy makes a rumor it's to keep it soft for his wife ;)
"Well nex' time you answer when you're spoke." - Demanding, but also has an inferiority complex because he's saying it to Lennie who is a big guy
"Curley ain't givin' knowbody a chance." - Violent and thinks for himself, doesn't comprimise
"Always picking fights."
"He hates big guys." - Inferiority complex, little man syndrome. Likes to win
Curley's wife
"Full rouged lips with wide spaced eyes...heavily made up." - Has makeup on, when the only people to see her are the men around the ranch
- Curley's wife
"Red dresses." - A colour of flirtatiousness and lust
"I never get to talk to anybody." - She's oppressed like crooks
"Can't blame a person for looking." - Likes attention and is flirtatious
"Tart." - She's judged by the guys
Just the same Curley's wife, shows how she's shown as a possession and not necessarily a person.
"I like to talk to somebody once in a while." - Wants friends, very lonley
"They left all the weak ones." - When commenting on how Lennie, Candy and Crooks were left at home. Wants to make herself feel superior, when she was also left at home.
"Huge man, shapeless of face." - opposite of George
He's physically a man, but mentally a child.
"Where are we going?" - Relies on George, like a dog and his master much like Candy and his dog
"I get to tend the rabbits." - Has a lifelong dream and gets angry at anything that could possibly get in the way of it.
Childish - "Lennie's lip quivered, tears started in his eyes."
"I'm not mad, I'm never mad at you." - This shows he's calm under pressure.
"You goddamn crazy *******!" - Uses rough language like workers and men of the ranch would
"You done good." - Like a parent to Lennie, guiding him
CROOKS
- Ponders on his dream to be equal but didn't actually achieve it
- Oppressed, so oppresses
- I could get you strung up on a tree so fast it ain't even funny." - Curley's wife humiliates and asserts her slither of power over him
Called Crooks because of his crippled back
- CROOKS
  - Ponders on his dream to be equal but didn't actually achieve it
  - Oppressed, so oppresses
  - I could get you strung up on a tree so fast it ain't even funny." - Curley's wife humiliates and asserts her slither of power over him
2nd class citizen because he's black and disabled
Could be seen as intelligent as he reads
"What if George don't come back?" - He taunts Lennie, as he's never been able to assert his power over someone till now
"Nobody got no right to be here but me!" - To Lennie when he goes in Crooks' bunk in the barn
CANDY
"Bristly white whiskers." - Shows he's an old man
- CANDY
"Carrying a broom." - A worker, but different from the others who buck barley
"The boss is a good fella." - Tries to see the best in everyone
"Had him since he was a pup." - Proud of his god, even though others aren't, much like George and Lennie
"A guy on a ranch don't listen or ast no questions." - Truthful, but shows the outcome of loneliness, not talking or listening
"I ain't got no relatives or nothin'." - Candy is lonely as his dog is dead so he wants to join Lennie and George's dream
When Candy looks at Curley's wife dead in the hay, he says "Poor *******." Showing us that he believes the true victim is Lennie

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