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Key quotes for themes
loneliness
''Guys like us, that work on ranches, are the loneliest guys in the world."
friendship
"I got you to look after me, and you got me to look after you."
power
“ well you keep your place then ni**er, I could get you strung up on a tree so easy it ain 't even funny”
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context for themes
lonelyness
at the start of the story Steinbeck describes how Lennie and George are lonely migrant workers with no real home
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power
the workers take Slims word as law, giving him absolute respect and power over the people on the ranch
violence
at this time men were under a lot of pressure to provide and this caused "little man syndrome" where shorter men compensated for a lack of masculinity with aggression and violence
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