Zusammenfassung der Ressource
Themes
- Prejudice
- Crooks is racially discriminated against
- Sleeps in barn
- "niggar"
- Doesn't socialise with other men on
ranch
- Curley's Wife is sexually discriminated against
- "rouged lips" sign of danger
- not given a name
- seen a trophy
- Curley's possession
- makes her self up
even if no one see's
her
- Candy is seen as
worthless because of his
age
- represents forgotten elderly
generation
- no privileges for them
- Lennie has a mental disability
and therefore seen as less able
than the other men
- "left weak ones here"
- can't think for himself
- relies on George
- Relationships
- Frienships
- George and Lennie have unusual friendship
- Migrant workers usually
don't establish long term
relationships
- Lennie needs George due to
disability but George needs
Lennie for someone to talk to
- George stuck in relationships
- Curley and Curley's Wife
- Curley's Wife a trophy
to Curley
- Curley shows no affection towards his wife
- seen as a piece of
property to Curley
- Opposing relationship to George
and Lennie
- Loneliness/ isolation
- All characters have
different loneliness
- Curley's Wife only women in ranch
- George is responsible for Lennie
- Crooks is racially discriminated
agaisnt
- Candy is seen as old and
worthless
- Gets forgotten about
- George has to look after Lennie
- Ranch is isolated
- Set in Soledad
- Spanish for solitude
- Steinbeck shows how
repetitive the life of a
migrant worker is and how
hard life was during the great
depression
- "Guys like us that work on ranches
are the loneliest guys in the world." -
George- creates a sense of
sympathy they have lost hope in
the American Dream
- But still hope
- American
Dream
- doomed to fail
- Great Depression
- Characters dreams
- Curley's wife wants to be a movie star
- Crooks wants to own part of farm with Lennie
- Lennie own farm to
"tend rabbits"
- Candy wants to follow
Lennie's Dream
- George own farm
- Migrant workers to be self sustainable