Of Mice and Men

1. Racism
   1. Crooks
   2. 'Nigger'
   3. 'Negro'
2. Sexism
   1. Curley's Wife
   2. 'hi good lookin'
3. Disability
   1. Lennie

1. Workers
2. Travelling
3. Soledad

1. George + Lennie
   1. Different

1. Freedom
2. Equality
3. Success

1. Pathetic Fallacy
2. Death
3. Metaphors

1. Displaying opinions
   1. Steinbeck challenging morals?
      1. Start of change?
      2. Start of the change?

1. Acts
   1. Starts with nature

      Annotations:

      • Genesis Garden Of Eden Utopia
      1. People enter
         1. Destruction of peace

            Annotations:

            • Darwin
            1. Cliff hanger

1. Progressive
2. Foreshadowing
3. Animals
   1. Suggesting Lennie is an animal
   2. Mouse

      Annotations:

      • Get bigger and more significant
      1. Dog
         1. Curley's Wife
            1. Lennie

1. Economic

   Annotations:

   • Uses every word to effect, and doesn't waste any words, hence the book being so small
2. Descriptive

Annotations:

• The wise 'old' man of the group, he's wiser than his years and understands his surroundings.

Annotations:

• He is the stable buck. He is black. But the reader is surprised to discover that he is actually very well read and intelligent. He is treated like scum. He isn't allowed to sleep in the same bunk as the others.

1. Black
   1. Racially Abused
      1. Mistreated

1. Short / Sharp
   1. Features
   2. Speech
2. Takes control/charge of Lennie

1. Big / Slow
   1. Description
   2. Speech
   3. Child-like

Annotations:

• Old man. Tries to join onto G+L's farm idea, for a sense of belonging and american dream.

1. Candy's Dog

   Annotations:

   • Gets shot by Carlson as it is old and no use. Candy becomes very lonely as that was his companionship.

Annotations:

• A small character that likes to pick on people bigger than him for fights. Gets into a fight with lennie, and lennie squashes his hand.

1. Small man syndrome
   1. "handy"
   2. Agressive

Annotations:

• Never meet the boss. Only hear about him.

Annotations:

• A flirty type, but the likely hood is she is also lonely. Although being married to Curley it does not seem as though she enjoys this relationship. She gets killed by Lennie.

1. "got the eye"
2. "jailbait"
   1. Cause of Lennie's death

Annotations:

• respected 'whore house' where the men usually spend their weekly pay

Annotations:

• Dead. But is often referred back to as a source of comfort for Lennie.

1. 'ain't'
2. 'outta'
3. 'whatta'
4. 'where the hell'
5. 'awright'
6. 'damn hot'