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Of Mice and Men - Characters (Lennie ('Snorting into the water like a…
Of Mice and Men - Characters
Slim
'His hands were large and lean, were as delicate in their action as those of a temple dancer'
'His authority was so great that his word was taken on any subject, be it love or politics'
'He moved with a majesty only achieved by royalty and master craftsmen
'Slim's opinions were law'
CONTEXT - Steinbeck's voice
George
'We got a future. We got somebody to talk to that gives a damn about us'
'George moved slowly after them, and his feet dragged heavily'
'Even in the open one stayed behind the other'
'If I was alone I could live so easy'
CONTEXT - symbolic of the ambitious average migrant worker, American dream
Lennie
'Snorting into the water like a horse'
'Slowly like a terrier who doesn't want to bring his ball back to his master'
'Strong as a bull'
'Dragging his feet a little, the way a bear drags his paws'
context; weak people in the 1930s Steinbeck uses him to illustrate how powerful friendly relationships
CONTEXT - American dream, migrant workers
Crooks
animal imagery - 'A little shed that leaned off the wall of the barn'
hyperbole + verb(reduced) - 'Crooks reduced himself to nothing'
verbs 'Crook's face lighted with pleasure at his torture'
alliteration(d) + verb(demanded) - 'He kept his distance and demanded people kept theirs'
CONTEXT - jim crowe laws, discrimination, no power , hated, racism, treated like animal
Candy
adverb + hyperbole - 'Candy looked helplessly at him, for Slim's opinions were law'
superlative - 'Now Candy spoke his greatest fear'
repetition - 'Candy looked for help from face to face'
grim imagery - 'When they can me here I wisht somebody shoot me'
CONTEXT - ageism, discrimination, weakness, old people in GD
Curley's wife
isolation symbolism - 'The rectangle of sunshine in the doorway was cut off'
metaphor - 'Her words tumbled out in a passion of communication'
listing - 'And the meaness and the plannings and the discontent and the ache for attention were all gone from her face'
short sentences + adj (awful) - 'I never get to talk to nobody. I get awful lonely'
CONTEXT - women in GD, below men in hierarchy, discrimination, power from husband, forced domestic
Curley
similie - 'The next minute Curley was flopping like a fish on a line'
verbs - 'His eyes slipped on past and lighted on Lennie'
adj (calculating, pugnacious) - 'His glance was at once calculating and pugnacious'
juxtaposition + metaphor - 'Curley's pants is full of ants'
CONTEXT - violent like lots of ranch workers, highest in the social order