Zusammenfassung der Ressource
Language
- Writing Style is simple
- Beginning of each Chapter is a description of setting
- Most of the novel is dialogue between characters
- Only short paragraphs and sentences of discription
- Wants to give the impression hat characters are telling their own story
- Giving a voice to men who would be powerless in reality
- Message is that everyone's lives are equally important
- Describes important/serious events simply
- 'And then she was still, for Lennie had broken her nick'
- Lennie 'jarred, and then settled slowly forward to the sand
- Make the events more shocking as they are described so bluntly
- Realistic Language
- Words and phrases used in the 1930s
- Makes it more realistic
- Racist references to Crooks
- Nigger
- Curley's wife is called a 'tart' and a 'bitch'
- Carlson says she should stay at home 'where she belongs'
- Isn't Steinbeck trying to be offensive
- Captured a moment of time in which people use racist and sexist language
- Describe the nature and the ranch
- Nature
- Descriptive language, 'golden', 'twinkling'
- Alliteration, 'slipped', 'sands', 'sunlight'
- Ranch
- Matter of fact language, 'rectangular', 'unpainted'
- Simple descriptions
- Short broken up sentences
- Makes nature sound much more appealing than the ranch
- Characters Names
- Lennie Small
- Ironic as Lennie's 'a huge man'
- 'Small' in the brains department so true in a sense
- George Milton
- Real surname which makes him seem as
more of a normal guy
- Tells us nothing about his personality
- Curley
- Curly Hair
- Tense and wound up, tight like a spring
- Slim
- Tall and elegant
- Describes him as a God
- Challanges the idea that ranch hands were stupid with no authority
- Crooks
- Crooked back
- Insulting
- Usually called nigger
- Curley's wife has no name
- Wants recognition, attention, her own identity and her own life
- To emphasise this she has none of them currently, not even a name
- Candy's dog has no name
- Suggests that both of them belong to someone else
- Place Names are meaningful
- Soledad the local town
- Means solitude or loneliness in Spanish
- All the characters are lonely
- Weed
- Where Lennie did a bad thing
- A plant you don't want
- The memory of Weed spoils their new life