Themes

Disability
Friendship
Dreams
Animals
Crooks
Curley's Wife
Lennie
Candy
Black
Most disadvantaged
Crook is the most disadvantaged out of the group because he is black. In society in those days black people came at the bottom of the hierarchy.
A quote to show this would be "Yes, ma'am" when Curley's wife threatens to get him killed
Only women of the Farm
Represents all Women
Least Disadvantaged
No other women appear in the book apart from a reference to a prostitute house. This shows women as object as she is only ever described as in her clothes and what she wears her actuall features are never described. As if she is an object not a person.
Curley's wife is the least disadvantaged as she is white and she has some power but she still has very few rights and is looked down apon.
A quote to sow this would be "strung up on a tree so easy it ain't even funny"
Moderatly disadvantaged
Mentally Retarded
Lennie is quite disadvantaged as although he is white his is mentally retarded and this means he is shunned from society. It is hard for him to find work and he cannot fit in with other people who don't know him.
Quite disadvantaged
Physically disabled
Although candy got his hand cut off in a farm machine and is old he still is able to get work, is white and is smart this makes him not that disadvanted
His arm is cut off and he is very old
Links the Group together
George and Lennie
Candy
Crooks
George and Lennie both want a piece of Land they can call there own. They want to achieve it through the american dream.
Hear bout George and Lennie s dream and wants to join he become there friend through this.
Crooks wants to be accepted which is why he becomes smart but even the american dream wont allow that.
Nature
Dehumanisation
Beginning
End
A the Beginning of the book by the brush the nature is plentiful and in abundance. This could be seen as a reflection of how George and Lennie think their life is going to be like.
Also at the start it is Sunny and bright and the sun has connotations of hope. It can be seen as them thinking they have what they want in their grasp. "yellow sands in the sunlight"
In the end by the Brush before Lennie is killed all the nature disappear and a scene is described where a water snake appears in the slient pool and a heron eats it this can be seen as George (heron) and Lennie (snake) is the death scene. Also it aludes to the same this happening as it says "Another little water snake swam up the pool", this shows how no matter how many or who dies people like lennie will always be shunned/die.
Also in the last chapter the sun disappears from the valley when it says "sun had left the valley" showing how all hope is now gone.
Crooks
George
Lennie
Lives with the Horses
Crooks lives with the horses and he sleeps in a "long box filled with straw", this puts him on the same level as the horses. He also "Range of medicine bottles, both for himself and for the horses"
Lizard
Lizards are fast and quick witted and George can be seen as this because he is described as "small and quick, dark of face, with restless eyes and sharp, strong features"
He is also very cautious and this can be seen when he "drank from his hand with quick scoops"
Bear/Horse
Lennie is dehumanised as it says he "snorted like a horse" and that he had "big paws".

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