Of Mice And Men

Question 1

Well keep your place then nigger

-discrimination -relationships -power -violence -weakness

Answer 1

Social hierarchy
Societal expectations
Your place=different for their links to lennies +George’s differences
Racial hatrid
Authority
Acceptance
Society’s need to catabolise people eg) nigger or migrant

Question 2

Crooks kept his distance and demanded that others kept theirs

-power -discrimination -disability -loneliness -relationships -relationships -lives of workers-weakness

Answer 2

Isolating himself
Contrast to how others desire contact
Views himself undesirable
Demand=control, contrasts to his lack of power over society + his own body
You are what your born
Distance- links to loneliness +difference from his and others or could link to how everyone on the ranch seems to want to get away and be somewhere else

Question 3

Someday were gonna get the jack together and were gonna have a little house and a couple of acres and a cow and some pigs

-dreams -settings -friendships -relationships

Answer 3

Simple lives
Company of others
Unique relationship
Optimism driving them forward
Others have no hope=makes them differences
Don’t need intimate relationships to be happy contrasts to men/women in that married
Someday-definite !authority =only power he has
Pigs= reference to how their treated like animals

Question 4

We got a future we got somebody to talk to the gives a damn about us, if them other guys gets in jail they can rot for all anybody gives a damn

-dreams -relationships -lives of workers -power -violence

Answer 4

Stein back idealises male friendships
Stienbeck -watchdog of society, special bond
Root of all suffering =loneliness
Once you sign to be a ranch worker you sign away your life/future
Jail-links to how ranchero,era already are Imprisoned , overpowered
Rot- links to how when you sign to be an ranchworkers it will slowly destroy you mentally/physically

Question 5

He brought the mussel of it close to the back of lennies head but his face set and his hand steadied

-death -violence -power-weakness

Answer 5

George has never had any power but now he is in control of his life , playing god
Links to him being Jesus with lennies as disciple =reflection upon how religion was important to them
Wave of calm comes over him , shows peace ness in death=links to how lennie will finally be happy
Shaking- regret + second thoughts
Violently- how lennie been treated his whole life from child to death

Question 6

Say it over to yourself lennie so you won’t forget it

-weakness -disability

Answer 6

Outlines lennies weakness-mental disability
George is his carer
Treats him like a child
Trying to help him, wants the best for him
Links to how workers keep having to remind themselves of why they carry on
Need to be reminded of American dream or they loose hope
Won’t forget= links how people must maintain in their social position! contrasts to how many men do everything they can in order to forget their terrible lives , distract themselves

Question 7

Well she got the eye
Only been married 2 weeks and got the eye maybe that why Curley pants is full of ants
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relationship -women

Answer 7

Curley, is a jealous wreck
Presents women in an negative manner almost greedy and ungrateful
Shows how society forced them to be together even though they didn’t want to
Women are unwilling to settle down or is it just her
Ironic should she have the eye of love for Curley
She desires attention from numerous men=underlines loneliness
Ants=all very similar+get everywhere links to how Curley is everywhere/controlling his life

Question 8

I never seen no jail bait worse than her

-discrimination - relationship -women

Answer 8

Women viewed negatively
Hatred + aggression or intimidation
She is authority 
Jail bait = walk into a trap = links to lennies death + how how migrants couldn't get trapped by women 
Something to hide