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

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