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George - Coggle Diagram
George
dream
'a little house and a couple of acres'
'live off the fatta the lan' '
'red and blue and green rabbits'
'we'll just say hell with goin' to work'
'how thick the cream is...you can hardly cut it'
'he drove his knife through the top of one of the bean cans'
'George half-closed his eyes'
'George sat entranced with his own picture'
'cherries, apples, peaches'
'the bacon and the hams'
'his voice was growing warmer'
'his eyes were full of wonder'
friendship (with lennie)
'solitaire lay'
'his face was as hard and tight as wood'
'his voice was monotonous'
'he said woodenly'
'put on his blue denim coat and buttoned it up'
'his black hat was pulled down low over his eyes'
'you're gonna be sick like you was last night'
'think i'd let you carry your own work card?'
'i never seen one guy take so much trouble for another guy'
'i got you to look after me, and you got me to look after you'
'we got a future'
itinerant labourer
'the loneliest guys in the world'
'they got no family'
'they don't belong no place'
'they don't belong no place'
'they ain't got nothing to look ahead to'
'dressed in denim trousers and in denim coats'
'black shapeless hats'
'work on ranches'
importance/function of George in the novel
George's investment in the dream is a method in which Steinbeck explores the human need for hope
George tries to escape his impoverished existence in the 1930s
Golden Age of Hollywood
'everybody wants a little bit of land'
dreams are futile
the care that George demonstrates for Lennie highlights that even in the impoverished, brutal culture of the Great Depression, there is hope for humanity
through the depiction of George's companionship with Lennie, Steinbeck explores the human need for relationships
ostensibly, George complains about being responsible for Lennie, however Lennie provides him with the fundamental human needs of belonging and purpose
through George's fate at the end of the novel, Steinbeck explores the pain and suffering of itinerant labourers without friends or family
the lonely life George faces as an itinerant labourer is presented as a figurative death
through George, Steinbeck suggests that during the Great Depression, this isolation is inevitable (foreshadowed through his solitaire)
Steinbeck uses George to establish the misogynistic views which were prevalent in the culture of the ranch and the wider society of 1930s America
after George met Curley's wife, he calls her 'rattrap', 'bitch', 'jailbait, 'tart' and repeatedly participates in sexist gossip.
he is presented as having huge moral strength yet holds acutely misogynistic views
therefore Steinbeck suggests that these ideas were normalised in the 1930s society
lonliness
'a guy gets too lonely and he gets sick'
'they get mean'