...Thesis: Steinbeck illustrates how people cope with loneliness through Candy, Crooks, and Curley's wife which shows that meeting inner needs brings validation. Curley’s Wife Candy Crooks Claim: Curley’s wife copes with loneliness by flirting with men in an effort to to feel validated. Evidence: “She had rouged lips and wide-spaced eyes, heavily made up. Her fingernails were red. Her hair hung in little rolled clusters, like sausages. She wore a cotton house dress and red mules, on the insteps of which were little bouquets of red ostrich feathers. ‘I’m looking for Curley’, she said. Her voice had a nasal brittle quality” (31). Reasoning: Curley’s wife’s red fingernails and mules symbolize her need for attention because red is a known flirtatious and seductive color. Flirting with guys makes her feel accepted and helps her cope with...
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...Back on subject about the authors personal life , think about what year the book and movie were published. 1937 that is over what 80-90 years ago , that is a long time things were a lot different back then . So the way people felt or handled things were differently. The book is Basically a grim lesson of human existence. All of his characters have experience loneliness and emptiness. I can see why they all suffered with that lots of things happened to them like in chapter five when Lennie is alone in the barn petting his dead puppy and has to cover it up with hay . That was sad . The reason why of mice and men is called that is because the way the characters are represented in the book all remind the author of animals...
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...In Of mice and men the story is told by an seemingly knowledgable narrator in other words in third person. He often starts with a scenic description like “ The sunshine lay in a thin line under the window” in order to set the scene but the narrator never goes deep into the characters feelings and thoughts, The closet the narrator says to the characters feelings, is describing facial expressions like “ frowned as he thought” but never the actual thought. Normally, omniscient characters go inside individual characters’ minds but in Of Mice and Men, it feels like the author is purposely holding back what the characters are actually thinking but instead describes an action or facial expression. The third person narrative also allows an...
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...Of Mice and Men Compare and Contrast In the novel Of Mice and Men, written by John Steinbeck, there are two shootings that occur. The first shooting is a dog and the second shooting is of man. The shooting of Candy’s dog happened in the third section. Everyone was telling Candy that his dog was useless and he smelled terrible. Carlson told Candy that he would be doing a favor for the dog if he shot him. Candy finally relented and Carlson took the dog outside with his luger and a shovel and shot the dog. Candy laid on his bunk looking at the ceiling and when the shot fired, Candy turned and faced the wall. Later on, Candy was talking with George and said that he should have shot his own dog because it was his responsibility. The shooting...
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...The novel Of Mice and Men, by John Steinbeck, he shows what love looks like in a friendship because of the sacrifices that were made. Lennie has always been trouble and George always has to keep him in-line. He finally gets in trouble by grabbing a girls dress causing them to have to leave town. George states, “Well, that girl rabbits in an’ tells the law she been raped. The guys in Weed start a party out to lynch Lennie. So we sit in a irrigation ditch under water all the rest of that day” (42). George has the chance to leave Lennie on his own or even just let them lynch him. He sacrifices what they have in that town and gets Lennie out of there to keep him safe. Lennie, once again gets into trouble by killing Curley's wife, causing all the ranchers to go after...
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...R.I.P Although people may have the best intentions and carefully-laid plans, factors outside their control can prohibit their dreams from becoming reality. Throughout Lennie and George's journey in the Novel Of Mice and Men we are introduced to a variety of characters. Each character is different in their own way and have different feelings for George and Lennie. Through the character of Candy, Steinbeck shows that issues outside the control of an individual often limit the achievement of an individual’s dreams. What makes Candy's dream special is that he shares it with George and Lennie. While eavesdropping on lennie and George's conversation he hears George explaining the dream to Lennie, Candy is fascinated about the idea of their dream. Having a farm with a lot of land is very appealing to him, so Candy buds into the conversation and attempts to get in on the dream. Candy quotes “ Suppose I went with you guys. That's three hundred and fifty bucks I'd put in. I ain't much good, but I could tend the chickens...
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...Opportunities, power, wealth, are all parts of the American Dream, a dream to achieve what not had. A selfish dream, but also a necessary one. Of Mice and Men is about two friends George, and Lennie. They both struggle to survive in the great depression. They work at a ranch, all is going well until Lennie accidentally kills Curley’s wife (The ranch owner’s son), in the end George has to kill Lennie. Steinbeck uses symbols such as the farm, Lennie’s rabbits, and Lennie’s death to represent George and Lennie’s unattainable dream. He uses the farm and rabbits as their goal, and Lennie’s death as an obstacle or failure for having the American Dream. Most of the people on the ranch shared a simple dream, to own land. George and Lennie had originally...
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...The book Of Mice and Men, written by John Steinbeck, is based around the American dream. In this novel, Lennie and George work on a farm. George takes care of Lennie because he has some sort of mental disability. The two men dream of having a farm of their own. Throughout the book, Lennie and George work towards buying their own farm while getting through obstacles along the way. The novel portrays the American dream as unachievable which makes me believe John Steinbeck views the American dream in the same way. George never brings up the farm he and Lennie plan on owning, unless it’s for Lennie’s sake. This leads me to believe George thinks their American dream is unachievable. From this information, I presume George thought owning a farm would be nearly impossible while he was still caring for Lennie. Steinbeck indirectly shared his thoughts on the American dream through this novel and the characters in it. He believed one had to work hard for what they owned and what they wanted. The book included great examples of hard work, but the American dream was never accomplished. John Steinbeck himself worked as a manual laborer before becoming an author. That requires a great deal of effort, yet he did not gain success from that job. He...
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...The American Dream of today is all about being given everything without working for it. However, during the 1900’s it was all about working hard. People packed up everything and moved for a chance at a better life. This was a great risk and negatively impacted many people. There wasn’t enough jobs so people became poor. Also, the living conditions were terrible because of how many people had moved to find a better life. In the story Of Mice and Men the author, John Steinbeck, shows the reader that everyone works hard for the American Dream of the 1930’s but it is rarely attainable. One way the American Dream is unattainable is how it is just a dream. For example, the dream that George and Lennie had of them owning their own land seemed like a possibility, but it was crushed when Lennie killed Curley’s wife. This shows how anything that a person does can ruin their chances of attaining their perfect life, or the American Dream. Another example is: “More than a dream of land or property or riches or even a house of one's own, George's vision encompasses a broader range of values—freedom, abundance, fairness, nature, and companionship—that are universally desired by the novel's characters, even if they too often remain tragically unfulfilled” (Zeitler). This shows that no matter how much someone...
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...beautiful and cherished girl in the whole kingdom. I'm sure nearly every little girl has the dream, but for most people it disappears over time. Not for me. True… it could be considered near impossible, but ever since those memorable nights I have dreamed to work as a Disney character at the resort.Transition needed here between your dream and theirs. Like nearly every person, real or fictional, George and Lennie have a dream. “ O.K. Someday—we're gonna get the jack together and we're gonna have a little house and a couple of acres and' a cow and some pigs and—" "An' live off the fatta the lan'," Lennie shouted” (Steinbeck 14). In John Steinbeck's novel Of Mice and Men George Milton and Lennie Small find themselves traveling together in order to find work. Though some deem (since you used “find” in your last sentence) it strange that two men spend so much time together, George and Lennie compliment each other. George, the smaller yet intelligent one, helps Lennie to function with...
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...The American Dream is a wish that someone really really wants that they truly believe can become possible but is currently unachieved. In the story Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck, written about and during the Great Depression in 1937 California, he demonstrates how everyone in the book has their own version of the American Dream. The people that will be used are Curley’s Wife, Candy and Crooks and they are 3 totally different people who all have one thing in common: an American dream. One person who has her own version of an American dream is Curley’s Wife, which was to become a movie star. At the time of the quote, Lennie had just killed his puppy and Curley’s Wife enters the barn house. She spots Lennie holding his dead dog and she sits in the hay next to Lennie, trying to strike up a conversation. She says to him at one point, “ ‘Coulda been in the movies, an’ had nice clothes---all them nice clothes like they wear. An’ I coulda sat in them big hotels, an’ had pitchers took of me. When they had them previews I coulda went to them, an’ spoke in the radio, an’ it...
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...Is it acceptable for people to kill? Is it EVER justified, even if the person committing the crime thinks it is satisfactory? In John Steinbeck’s novella, Of Mice and Men , George Milton is confronted with these questions, which have major consequences, with little time to think of the possible outcomes. Even though George may be able to keep his crime hidden, the law is the law. If a person disobeys it they pay. Ignorance of the law is no excuse and Lennie would have been better off in prison serving out a sentence for the crime he committed. Thus, George should be punished for killing Lennie because he is supposed to take care of Lennie, George wanted to be by himself, and he stole a gun and used it when it was not permitted to him. One of the many reasons the killing should not be justified is because George Milton made a promise to take care of Lennie, and murdering Lennie did not fulfill that promise. In fact, it was the exact opposite. In chapter 2 when George was speaking to the boss about...
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...Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck Seeing is believing but even then, sometimes looks can be deceiving. In the novel Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck, Lennie is often lured into many traps. Due to his mental disability, Lennie has a childlike mind that never suspects a thing, which causes George to regularly figure out ways to avoid and get out of trouble. Although this duo has each other’s backs, what to say that the future can’t change anything? Throughout the novel Steinbeck uses the color red as a symbol of seduction in order to foreshadow danger from all of this, Steinbeck conveys those who play with fire are bound to get burned. Steinbeck intentionally uses the color red throughout the story to represent seduction, when Lennie and George...
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...of Independence and saying that all men are created equal and have the “inalienable right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness ”. So I believe that the american dream for anyone has not been able to be established by our founding fathers based on sexism, racism and depression. In the book of Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck sexism has thoroughly been displayed throughout the story. “So that’s what Curley picks for a wife” (Steinbeck 17). When Steinbeck states that Curley “picks” his wife he shows her more as a object than a human being. Also in Of Mice and Men a character says, “Wait’ll you see Curley’s wife” (Steinbeck 15). Curley’s wife is still being treated as a sexual object not a women. Curley’s wife even says “I don’t like Curley. He ain’t a...
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...In this Essay I will be comparing and contrasting the poems: ‘Nettles’, ‘Brothers’ and ‘Farmers bride’ with Mice and Men. In ‘Nettles’, the poet uses structure to symbolise his feeling. The first stanza consists of four sets of lines and applies in all of the stanzas which is proximate to sonnet form. He has intentionally done this to show anger because Scannel didn’t believe in regimented discipline he didn’t like the military, he reacted against what other people would tell him to do; this indicates that he is breaking the rules as he did when he ran away from the army. The way he uses words is very interesting as the first line says “My son aged three fell in the Nettle bed” the word bed causes the reader to stop, the full stop represents this pause It is a moment of contemplation the word ‘bed’ is ambiguous as we know that it’s used for sleeping or resting which...
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