Candy's Dog's Death

Mirrors Candy: useless in ranch environment "stiff with rheumatism, ain't no good"
Slim: "I wisht somebody'd shoot me if I got old an a cripple"
Candy is passive, submissive: "awright, take him"
"I ought to of shot that dog myself. I shouldn't ought to of let no stranger shoot my dog" - regret, influences George to shoot Lennie at the end of the novel

Fight between Curley and Lennie

"Curley was balanced and poised" - prepared, experienced
"lennie gave a cry of terror" - helpless, childlike
animal imagery: "huge paws", "bleated with terror", "Curley was flopping like a fish on the line", "His closed fist was lost in Lennie's paw"

Crooks torments Lennie

so unused to company that he is cruel to Lennie
Manipulative: "voice grew soft and persuasive"
cruel: "crooks' face lighted up with pleasure of his torture", "they'l tie ya up.. like a dog"
Lennie "growled"

Dead Puppy

Curley's Wife's Death

"her body flopped like a fish" - similar to Curley, helpless in Lennie's hands
"he pawed up the hay" - animal
"the discontent and ache for attention were all gone from her face" - finally at peace, most natural in death
G: "I should of knew. i guess maybe way back in my head i did"
candy is in denial, desperately tries to convince G to carry on with American Dream: "You an me can get that little place, can't we George?"
Candy is enraged with CW: "You god damn tramp" - obscene lack of respect, misogyny
Candy: "sorrow and anger", "viciously", "sniveled", "blinded by tears"
Curley doesn't grieve: "That big son of a bitch done it.. i'm gonna get him" "I'll shoot him in the guts"

Lennie's death

Lennie hallucinates - madness, misogyny: sees Aunt Clara in form of rabbit: "he's gonna leave you all alone, ya crazy bastard"
lennie is a "creeping bear"
water snake - foreboding, evil
George's hand "shook violently"
Slim: "a guy got to sometimes" "You hadda, george. I swear you hadda" - sympathizes, understands, appreciates G's difficult position

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Note on Events in Of Mice and Men, created by lowri_luxton on 05/19/2014.

Events in Of Mice and Men