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Themes in Of Mice and Men (Violence (Carlson (Shoots Candy's dog (He…
Themes in Of Mice and Men
Violence
Carlson
"The way I'd shoot him, he wouldn't feel a thing"
Experienced
Shoots Candy's dog
He doesn't seem affected by death
"How did you do it"
Chapter 3
"I'll get my Luger"
The only other person with a gun
Doesn't care about Curley's wife
Cares more about his gun
George
"He pulled the trigger"
Shoots Lennie (chapter 6)
Used Lennie's strength to his advantage
Curley
The Great depression is the cause of his anger
"I will kill the son-of-a-bitch myself..... I will shoot him right in the guts"
"He bent his elbows and his hands closed into fists"
Boxers stance
Lennie
he doesn't know his own strength
Crushes Curley's hand
"He flopped like a fish"
Bear like
Bears catch fish
"He stood up and walked dangerously close to Crooks"
Pets too hard
Curley's wife
"And then she was still for Lennie had broken her neck"
"And I made like I was gonna smack him"
kills mice
kills puppy
Loneliness
Crooks
Only black person on the Ranch
"long as you won't get out and leave me alone"
Not allowed in the bunkhouse
"I ain't allowed in the bunkhouse"
"If I say something, why it's just a nigger saying it"
Candy
"I had him since he was a pup"
His only companion is his dog
"S'pose I went in with you guys"
Referring to the American Dream
Curely's wife :
lots of spare time
"I don't like Curley"
"Ain't I got the right to talk to nobody"
"Think I'm gonna stay in that two by four house"
George
Plays Solitaire
Solitaire means loneliness which is a metaphor for the characters in the novella
Friendship
Candy and his dog
"He rolled slowly over and faced the wall and lay silent"
When he heard the gunshot
"I had him since he was a pup"
Only true friend
George and Lennie
They let Candy into the dream
Unique
Migrant workers
Would've travelled alone
George was Lennie's carer
"You've got me and I've got you"
"Look across the river, Lennie, and I'll tell you so you can almost see it"
Making Lennie's last moments nice
George and Slim
George tells Slim about Weed
"Come on George, me an' you'll go an' get a drink"
"Slim turned quietly to George
Empathises with george
Prejudice
Crooks
"Nigger"
"Cause I'm black"
Racism in America
Jim Crow laws
Curley's wife
"She's a tramp"
"They left all the weak ones here"
ironic because she's a "weak one" too
says this to Crooks
"You wasn't no good"
Lennie
They don't understand mental illness
"S'pose they lock him up and strap him up"
Candy
"You stay here with her"
"Old Swamper"
"Round stick-like wrist"
Caught in a machine
250 dollars compensation
Dreams
Candy
Has his 250 dollars to contribute
Lennie and George
"To live off the fatta the land"
Crooks
Lennie discloses the dream
Crooks is cynical at first
"I see hundreds of men come by... every damn one of them has a piece of land in their heads
"if you guys would want a hand to work for nothing"