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Plot - Section 1

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Section 1:
- George and Lennie are off to work at a nearby ranch
- They left Weed because Lennie touched a girl’s dress
- George tells Lennie to meet at the pool if there’s trouble

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Plot - Section 2

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Section 2:
- George and Lennie start work
- They meet the other ranch hands: old Candy, aggressive Curley, flirtatious Curley’s wife, authoritative Slim
- Lennie is attracted to Curley’s wife and George is worried

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Plot - Section 3

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Section 3:
- Slim gives Lennie a puppy
- Candy’s dog gets shot
- Candy offers to partake in George and Lennie’s dream
- Curley and Lennie’s fight

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Plot - Section 4

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Section 4:
- Lennie enters Crooks’s hut
- Candy also appears and they tell Crooks about their dream
- Curley’s wife comes in and threatens Crooks with lynching when he tells her to leave
- Lennie accidentally kills the pup

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Plot - Section 5

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Section 5:
- Lennie tries to bury the puppy
- He accidentally kills Curley’s wife

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Plot - Section 6

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Section 6:
- George finds Lennie by the pool
- He talks to Lennie about their dream farm and shoots him just before the others arrive

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Lennie - physical appearance

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  • ‘a huge man, shapeless of face’.
  • ‘he walked heavily, dragging his feet a little, the way a bear drags his paws’
  • His arms…hung loosely.’
  • ‘drank with long gulps, snorting into the water like a horse.’
  • ‘Lennie’s lip quivered and tears started in his eyes’
  • “Lennie’s strong and quick and Lennie don’t know no rules” - George
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Lennie - speech

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  • “because I got you to look after me, and you got me to look after you…”
  • “Go on… George. How I get to tend the rabbits”
  • “But I wouldn’t eat none, George. I’d leave it all to you.”
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Lennie - disability

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  • “somebody’d shoot you for a coyote if you was by yourself” - George
  • “If I was a relative of yours I’d shoot myself” - George
  • “If I tol’ him to walk over a cliff, over he’d to go” - George
  • “He’s jes’ like a kid, ain’t he.” - Slim
  • ‘Lennie was looking helplessly to George for instruction’
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George - appearance

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  • ‘small and quick, dark of face, with restless eyes and sharp, strong features’
  • ‘every part of him was defined: small, strong hands, slender arms, a thin and bony nose.’
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George - speech

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  • “Guys like us, that work on the ranches, are the loneliest guys in the world.”
  • “… If I was alone I could live so easy…”
  • “I’ll work my month an’ I’ll take my fifty bucks an’ I’ll stay all night in some lousy cat house”
  • “You… an’ me. Ever’body gonna be nice to you. Ain’t gonna be no more trouble. “
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Curley’s wife - appearance

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  • ‘She had full, rouged lips and wide-spaced eyes, heavily made up’
  • ‘her fingernails were red… She wore a cotton house dress and red mules, on the insteps of which were little bouquets of red ostrich feathers’
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Curley’s wife - other people’s misogynistic views

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  • “Don’t you even take a look at that bitch… I seen ‘em poison before, but I never seen a piece of jailbait worse than her.” - George
  • “Well, I think Curley’s married… a tart. “ - Candy
  • “Why’n’t you tell her to stay the hell home where she belongs?” - Carlson
  • “You God damn tramp… Ever’body knowed you’d mess things up. You wasn’t no good. You ain’t no good now, you lousy tart.”
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Curley’s wife - loneliness and lost dreams

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  • “I get awful lonely” + “I get lonely”
  • “He says I could go with that show… The guy says I coulda”
  • “I never got that letter… I always thought my ol’ lady stole it.”
  • “And the meanness and the plannings and the discontent and the ache for attention were all gone”
  • “pretty and simple… sweet and young” (after her death)
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Crooks - appearance

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  • “Got a crooked back where a horse kicked him”
  • ‘Crooks was a proud, aloof man.”
  • His eyes ‘seemed to glitter with intensity’
  • ‘deep black wrinkles, and he had thin, pain-tightened lips’
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Crooks - racism

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  • “The boss gives him hell when he’s mad. But the stable buck don’t give a damn about that”
  • Lives in a ‘little shed that leaned off the wall of the barn.’
  • “I ain’t wanted in the bunk house… ‘Cause I’m black”
  • ‘Crooks seemed to grow smaller… Crooks had reduced himself to nothing’
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Crooks - loneliness and realism

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  • “Nobody never gets to heaven, and nobody gets no land”
  • “A guy needs somebody - to be near him.”
  • “A guy goes nuts if he ain’t got nobody.”
  • “There wasn’t another colored family for miles around.”
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Candy - appearance

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  • ‘tall, stoop-shouldered old man… big push-broom in his left hand.’ - contrasts with other younger workers
  • ‘out of the sleeve came a round stick-like wrist, but no hand.’ - reason for his segregation + inability to work properly
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Candy - dog

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  • '’Why’n’t you shoot him, Candy?’ The old man squirmed uncomfortably.” - nobody understands their bond and unique friendship
  • “I had him so long. Had him since he was a pup.” - dreads losing his long-time companion
  • “He don’t have no fun… And he stinks to beat hell.” (Carlson) - no longer useful and a nuisance in the bunkhouse
  • “Can’t eat, can’t see, can’t even walk without hurtin’”
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Candy - old age + disability

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  • “They’ll can me purty soon. Jus’ as soon as I can’t swamp out no bunk houses they’ll put me on the county.”
  • “You seen what they done to my dog tonight? They says he wasn’t no good to himself nor nobody else.”
  • “When they can me here I wisht somebody’d shoot me.”
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Candy - dreams and lost dreams

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  • “We gonna have a room to ourself. We’re gonna have a dog an’ rabbits an’ chickens. We’re gonna have…”
  • ‘He looked helplessly back at Curley’s wife, and gradually his sorrow and his anger grew into words’ - proves Crooks quote when he says ‘I tell ya, a guy gets too lonely an’ he gets sick’.
  • “You God damn tramp… Ever’body knowed you’d mess things up”
  • ‘His eyes blinded with tears… went weakly out of the barn, and rubbed his bristly whiskers with his wrist stump.’
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Curley - appearance

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  • ‘a thin young man with a brown face, with brown eyes and a head of tightly curled hair.’
  • ‘He glanced coldly… His arms gradually bent at the elbows and his hands closed into fists’
  • ‘His glance was at once calculating and pugnacious’
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Curley - actions

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  • ‘Curley jumped out the door and banged it after him’
  • “He done quite a bit in the ring” + “Got in the finals for the Golden Gloves” - egotistical and arrogant
  • ‘slashed’ + ‘smashed’ + ‘slugging him in the face’ (Curley and Lennie’s fight)
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Curley - language

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  • “Any you guys seen my wife?” he demanded
  • “Where the hell’s Slim?”
  • “Come on, ya big bastard. Get up on your feet.”
  • “No big son-of-a-bitch is gonna laugh at me. I’ll show ya who’s yella.”
  • Violent + rude language: “I’ll kill the big son-of-a-bitch myself. I’ll shoot ‘im in the guts.”
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Curley - Curley’s wife’s opinions

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  • “I’m glad you bust up Curley a little bit. … Sometimes I’d like to bust him myself.”
  • “I don’t like Curley. He ain’t a nice fella.”
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Slim - appearance

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  • “don’t need to wear no high-heeled boots on a grain team” - doesn’t need to dress like a boss to show his authority
  • ‘A tall man’ + ‘he moved with a majesty only achieved by royals and master craftsmen’ - compared to the nobility and professionals
  • ‘a jerkline skinner’ + ‘prince of the ranch’
  • ‘His hands, large and lean, were as delicate in their action as those of a temple dancer.’
  • ‘George looked over at Slim and saw the calm, Godlike eyes fastened on him’ - his power and authority sets him apart from everyone else
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Slim - mannerisms

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  • ‘He looked kindly at the two in the bunk house’
  • ‘His voice was very gentle’
  • ‘His tone was friendly’
  • ‘Slim’s opinions were law’
  • ‘gravity in his manner’ - respected and listened to, and his actions are impactful and important (‘gravity’)
  • “nobody don’t know what Slim can do” - mysterious figure who has never bee questioned or challenged
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Slim - speech

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  • “Hi, good-lookin” - shows Slim’s authority by being allowed to get away with saying that and not getting in trouble with Curley
  • “Hello, Crooks. What’s a matter?”

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