The author of the literary criticism for the novella Of Mice and Men makes a critical point about how all of the women in the novel are portrayed negatively. The critic also says that the women in the book lead to no good because they do not seem to understand and that they jump to conclusions too quickly. The critic even find a connection between a character that is not even really in the novella but is only spoken about and in the end of the book she appears in Lennie’s hallucinations. The character is Aunt Clara and the critic found a connection between her name and the owner of one of the two whore houses mentioned in the book. The critic feels as though because both the owner and Aunt Clara both have the name Clara that Aunt Clara
