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- The Bunk House
- Appearance
- "a long, rectangular building."
- Has a uniform appearance
- doesn't have to look nice
- "inside the walls were whitewashed and the floor unpainted." P.G 19
- "In three walls there were small,
square windows and in the fourth, a
solid door with a wooden latch."P.G 19
- seems like a prison
- "Against the walls were 8 bunks,
5 of them made up...the other 3
showing their Burlap ticking." P.G 19
- Doesn't sound like a nice place.
- Not good quality - "Burlap ticking"
- "In the middle of the room stood a big square table littered with
playing cards, and around it were grouped boxes for the players
to sit on." P.G 19
- Is a sociable place
- What happens
- Fight between Curley and Lennie
- Curley doesn't like Lennie
- " Well nex' time you answer when you're spoke to." P.G 28
- "He hates little guys." P.G 29
- "He slashed at Lennie with his left,
and then smashed down his nose
with his right." P.G 71
- "Curley sat down on the floor, looking in
wonder at his crushed hand." P.G 72.
- Curley started the fight but he
ended off worst for wear.
- The decision to kill Candy's dog
- "This ol' dog jus' suffers hisself all the time." P.G 50
- "I'll shoot him for you. The it won't be you
that does it." P.G 51 - Carlson
- "Take a shovel" P.G 54
- Carlson convinces Candy that the
right thing to do is to kill his dog.
- Crook's room
- Appearance
- Is not just his living space it is his work space as well
- "In it a range of medicine bottles, both
for himself and for the horses." P.G 75
- Is an isolated space
- Opposite to the bunk house
- Bunk house is a sociable space, Crook's room is an isolated space
- "for being alone, Crooks could leave his things about," P.G 75
- Personal space
- "Crooks possessed several pairs of shoes, a pair
of rubber boots, a big alarm clock and a
single-barreled shotgun. And he had books, too; a
tattered dictionary and a mauled copy of the
California civil code for 1905." P.G 76
- Has lots of personal possessions
- What happens
- The dream
- Lennie and Candy discuss it in front of crooks
- Crooks wants to join them
- "... If you...guys would want a hand to work for
nothing-just his keep, why I'd come an' lend a hand."
P.G 86-87
- Curley's wife
- Curly's wife tries to find out what really happened to Curley
- "Say-what happened to Curley's han'?" P.G 88
- The men try to cover it up
- "Got it caught in a machine." P.G 88
- Makes Crooks change his mind about joining Lennie, George and Candy
- "I wouldn't want to go no place like that." P.G 94
- Weed
- What happens
- The girl in Weed
- Lennie wants to feel her dress
- Likes soft things
- She is surprised and tries to run away but Lennie holds on
- Lennie and George get run out of Weed
- "An you ain't gonna do no bad things like you done in Weed, neither." P.G 7
- Why Weed?
- is called Weed because it is represented as a horrible place to be
- Like a garden weed
- Name foreshadows that something bad is going to happen
- The Barn
- Appearance
- At first glance, it looks like an ordinary barn
- " One end of the great barn was piled high with new hay...At
the sides the feeding racks were visible." P.G 95
- Are features that could foreshadow Curley's wife's death
- "four taloned Jackson fork suspended from its pulley." P.G 95
- The hanging fork represents Curley's wife's fate hanging in the balance
- "The end of the barn that had not yet been filled with hay." P.G 95
- Where Curley's wife is killed
- Represents an open grave, waiting to be filled with Curley's wife's dead body.
- What happens
- Lennie kills his puppy
- He doesn't know his own strenght
- Killed the puppy accidentally
- "Why do you got to get killed?" P.G 96
- Foreshadows him killing Curley's wife
- Lennie kills Curley's wife
- She is wearing red like at the beginning when we first see her
- Shows the danger of her being around
- Beginning
- "Her fingernails were red...she wore a cotton house dress
and red mules...bouquets of red ostrich feathers." P.G 34
- "She had full, rouged lips." P.G 34
- End
- "Her rouged cheeks and her reddened lips." P.G 105
- "She wore her bright cotton dress and the mules
with the red ostrich feathers." P.G 97
- She invites him to feel her hair
- She struggles and he panics like he did in weed
- Tries to get her to be quiet a he is worried than
George will be angry with him for talking to her
- Lennie doesn't see the difference between him
killing the puppy and killing Curley's wife
- "I done another bad thing." P.G 103
- "I'll throw him away...it's bad
enough like it is." P.G 104
- He see's having killed the puppy just as
bad as having killed Curley's wife.
- Struggles because she is surprised by Lennie's strength
- "and he stroked harder." P.G 102
- "You stop it now." P.G 102
- He likes feeling soft things
- "I like to pet nice things with my
fingers, sof' things" P.G 101
- "Here-feel right here." P.G 102