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- Women
- Three important women
- Curley's wife
- Lonely and frustrated person
- Tries to use her sexuality
to get attention
- Men dislike her for it and call
her a 'God damn tramp'
- Haunts the farm like a ghost
- 'Jesus Christ. Curley's wife can
move quiet'
- Has her own impossible dream
of being a movie star
- She's like the men in a way
- Dreaming of another life and frustrated at her own
- Lennie's Aunt Clara
- Lennie doesn't seem to
remember her that well
- Refers to her as 'that lady'
- Seems scared of her
- When he imagines being told off
- George seems to be looking after Lennie
because she would have wanted him too
- 'No, you stay with my. Your Aunt Clara
wouldn't like you running off by yourself'
- George seems to want to respect her wishes
- Susy in Soledad
- Runs a Brothel the men go to
on Saturday nights
- Whit says it's the best one
because the girls are 'clean'
- Also says they don't put
pressure on men
- Shows what most of the
ranch hands are looking for
in life
- Men and Women don't
Understand Eachother
- Men assume Curley's wife is a
tart
- 'She's a rattrap if I ever seen
one'
- She in turn assumes they are useless
- Curley doesn't understand his wife's needs
- Idea of 'being there' for her is covering
his hand in Vaseline
- Men and women stereotype
eachother
- Undermine each other's dreams
- Dreams
- George and Lennie dream
of a better life
- Don't want to work on the ranch
everyday until the die
- They are different
- Owning a farm
- Dream keeps them going
through rough times
- We never see and evidence that
the farm George talks about
actually exists
- Even when Candy offers them money
- Not sure if George believes in the dream
- Sometimes seems he does
- 'I got to thinking maybe we would'
- Sometimes seems he doesn't
- 'I think we knowed we'd never do her'
- George changes his attitude towards the
dream
- Chapter One he speaks rythmically
- Chapter Six he speaks monotonously
- George has finally accepted
his dreams won't come true
- People on the ranch are going Nowhere
- George says most men who work on
ranches 'work up a stake and then they
go inta town and blow their stake
- George believes that men like this
'ain't got nothing to look ahead to'
- Sometimes
George dreams of
his life
- Talks about having a girl, having an easy life drinking whisky,
shooting pool and panning for gold
- Some characters have Different Dreams
- Whit and Carlson are average guys
- Physically fit and
able enough to make
money to buy
themselves whisky
and sex
- Have no ambitions
- Might say because they have no
dreams, they are never really happy
or unhappy, they just exist
- Curley's wife dreams of being a
movie star
- Never going to happen because she's trapped