Broken Plans Flashcards
1
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George + Lennie
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- ‘they got a future’
- ‘An’ live of the fatta the lan’
- ‘I knowed we’d never do her’. = sad; Georges strive for self-sufficiency was ironically out of his control
2
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Candy
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- contributes ‘three hunderd an’ fifty bucks’, makes it even more sad when dream fails. He gave them the possibility to be real
- ‘You an’ me can get that little place, can’t we, George?’
- unusual and goes against the lonely nature of itinerant workers
3
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Crooks
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- Unlike the other characters, Crooks has completely lost his faith in religion and humanity, remarking that,
-‘nobody never gets to heaven, and nobody gets no land’
4
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Curley’s wife
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‘ he says he was gonna put me in the movies, he says I was a natural’
The establishment of dramatic irony emphasises the tragedy of Curley’s wife’s life. Her dream was never materialised. ‘He says I was a natural’ -noun. He was only complimenting her to get her to do what he wanted. In reality it was never going to happen, reflecting the inevitable tragedy of a working class woman trying to make something of herself. Reader feels sympathy for how she was groomed. Golden age of Hollywood when this was a common thing.
