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1. The Bunk House

   • Appearance
     • "a long, rectangular building."
       • Has a uniform appearance
         • doesn't have to look nice
           • "inside the walls were whitewashed and the floor unpainted." P.G 19
           • "In three walls there were small, square windows and in the fourth, a solid door with a wooden latch."P.G 19
             • seems like a prison
     • "Against the walls were 8 bunks, 5 of them made up...the other 3 showing their Burlap ticking." P.G 19
       • Doesn't sound like a nice place.
         • Not good quality - "Burlap ticking"
     • "In the middle of the room stood a big square table littered with playing cards, and around it were grouped boxes for the players to sit on." P.G 19
       • Is a sociable place
   • What happens
     • Fight between Curley and Lennie
       • Curley doesn't like Lennie
         • " Well nex' time you answer when you're spoke to." P.G 28
         • "He hates little guys." P.G 29
       • "He slashed at Lennie with his left, and then smashed down his nose with his right." P.G 71
       • "Curley sat down on the floor, looking in wonder at his crushed hand." P.G 72.
         • Curley started the fight but he ended off worst for wear.
     • The decision to kill Candy's dog
       • "This ol' dog jus' suffers hisself all the time." P.G 50
       • "I'll shoot him for you. The it won't be you that does it." P.G 51 - Carlson
       • "Take a shovel" P.G 54
       • Carlson convinces Candy that the right thing to do is to kill his dog.

2. Crook's room

   • Appearance
     • Is not just his living space it is his work space as well
       • "In it a range of medicine bottles, both for himself and for the horses." P.G 75
     • Is an isolated space
       • Opposite to the bunk house
         • Bunk house is a sociable space, Crook's room is an isolated space
       • "for being alone, Crooks could leave his things about," P.G 75
       • Personal space
         • "Crooks possessed several pairs of shoes, a pair of rubber boots, a big alarm clock and a single-barreled shotgun. And he had books, too; a tattered dictionary and a mauled copy of the California civil code for 1905." P.G 76
           • Has lots of personal possessions
   • What happens
     • The dream
       • Lennie and Candy discuss it in front of crooks
         • Crooks wants to join them
           • "... If you...guys would want a hand to work for nothing-just his keep, why I'd come an' lend a hand." P.G 86-87
     • Curley's wife
       • Curly's wife tries to find out what really happened to Curley
         • "Say-what happened to Curley's han'?" P.G 88
         • The men try to cover it up
           • "Got it caught in a machine." P.G 88
       • Makes Crooks change his mind about joining Lennie, George and Candy
         • "I wouldn't want to go no place like that." P.G 94

3. Weed

   • What happens
     • The girl in Weed
       • Lennie wants to feel her dress
         • Likes soft things
         • She is surprised and tries to run away but Lennie holds on
           • Lennie and George get run out of Weed
             • "An you ain't gonna do no bad things like you done in Weed, neither." P.G 7
   • Why Weed?
     • is called Weed because it is represented as a horrible place to be
       • Like a garden weed
     • Name foreshadows that something bad is going to happen

4. The Barn

   • Appearance
     • At first glance, it looks like an ordinary barn
       • " One end of the great barn was piled high with new hay...At the sides the feeding racks were visible." P.G 95
       • Are features that could foreshadow Curley's wife's death
         • "four taloned Jackson fork suspended from its pulley." P.G 95
           • The hanging fork represents Curley's wife's fate hanging in the balance
     • "The end of the barn that had not yet been filled with hay." P.G 95
       • Where Curley's wife is killed
         • Represents an open grave, waiting to be filled with Curley's wife's dead body.
   • What happens
     • Lennie kills his puppy
       • He doesn't know his own strenght
         • Killed the puppy accidentally
           • "Why do you got to get killed?" P.G 96
           • Foreshadows him killing Curley's wife
     • Lennie kills Curley's wife
       • She is wearing red like at the beginning when we first see her
         • Shows the danger of her being around
         • Beginning
           • "Her fingernails were red...she wore a cotton house dress and red mules...bouquets of red ostrich feathers." P.G 34
           • "She had full, rouged lips." P.G 34
         • End
           • "Her rouged cheeks and her reddened lips." P.G 105
           • "She wore her bright cotton dress and the mules with the red ostrich feathers." P.G 97
       • She invites him to feel her hair
         • She struggles and he panics like he did in weed
           • Tries to get her to be quiet a he is worried than George will be angry with him for talking to her
             • Lennie doesn't see the difference between him killing the puppy and killing Curley's wife
               • "I done another bad thing." P.G 103
               • "I'll throw him away...it's bad enough like it is." P.G 104
                 • He see's having killed the puppy just as bad as having killed Curley's wife.
           • Struggles because she is surprised by Lennie's strength
             • "and he stroked harder." P.G 102
               • "You stop it now." P.G 102
         • He likes feeling soft things
           • "I like to pet nice things with my fingers, sof' things" P.G 101
         • "Here-feel right here." P.G 102