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awready, did you? I gotta tell you again, do I? Jesus Christ, you are a crazy bastard!”(Steinbeck 3). John Steinbeck wrote Of Mice and Men, which tells an exhilarating story about George Milton, Lennie Smalls, and a ranch in Soledad, California. George, Lennie, and almost everyone on the ranch have a physical or a mental impairment. George cares for Lennie because Lennie is mentally handicapped. Curley has a severely crushed hand, and Candy is missing his hand completely. George Milton…

the characters are located on a ranch to work in a town called Soledad. Soledad itself means loneliness in Spanish. The setting of a ranch in Soledad is important to the idea of loneliness in Of Mice and Men because many of the characters on the ranch, specifically Crooks, Candy, and Curley’s Wife, are suffering from loneliness. The Characters who suffer from loneliness illustrate the overarching…

you are the only women or African-American male on a ranch. You’d feel like an outlier, and you’d go into an almost self isolation because there is no one else like you on the ranch. This is exactly how Curley’s wife and Crooks, the stable hand who works with the ranch horses, felt during the time of the Great Depression. Curley’s wife and Crooks have very different lifestyles and backgrounds but they have the same feeling of isolation on the ranch. They are both minorities, she is the only…

In the book Of Mice and Men the story takes place on a ranch where the amount of respect you get is generally based upon the amount of physical labor you can do while working on the ranch John Steinbeck introduces us one of the characters Candy, who is a disabled older worker on the ranch who appears to be fine but the reader realizes he is lonely and feels useless on the ranch. Candy is one of the loneliest workers on the ranch and his best friend and probably only true friend was his dog that…

together to work on a ranch down in southern California because of a mishap up north, which would come back to haunt them. At the ranch, they encounter several people, such as Candy, Curley’s wife, Lennie and Crooks, each with a distinct personality trait. Throughout Steinbeck’s novel, Of Mice and Men, we see how Candy, Curley’s wife, and Crooks each deal with ageism, sexism, and racism and how it affects their lives and the story. Candy is an old man who has worked on the ranch for a long…

even giving a name in the novel she is just called curley's wife.Why did steinbeck create this character . Curley's wife from the beginning of the story is cast out.Curlys wife is a lonely wife on a far out ranch.She can't go anywhere because the ranch is so far out.She has no women…

own ranch. Through his use of diction in Of Mice and Men, John Steinbeck reveals that dreams are an anomaly, particularly in an oppressive environment. Steinbeck’s…

just based on skin color, but also on age and gender. In Of Mice and Men many characters were discriminated like Crooks. Crooks is an old black man who lives in the stable bunk, while all the other ranch hands were together. Also, Curley’s wife is discriminated because she is the only woman on the ranch and her husband cheats on her. At the beginning of the story Candy gets discriminated because of his dog smelling the place up and his dogs age. Candy also, is discriminated because of his old…

254 counties in Texas, Throckmorton is the 16th smallest in the state. Economic Development in Throckmorton needs to focus on the needs of the needs of the constituents. Obviously, the large ranch is a key driver of the local economy. There is likely a fine line necessary in the county for helping the ranch continue to be successful as well as the ability to diversify when and where possible for risk mitigation and quality of life improvement. In no way should the difference in income…

establish a society of all people equal in wealth and power. Steinbeck wrote the book Of Mice and Men. Of Mice and Men takes place in the Salinas River Valley, California. The story follows the journey of two ranch hands during the great depression. Ranch hands are people who move ranch to ranch working during the season to help ranches. In his novel, Of Mice and Men, John Steinbeck uses the characters George, Candy, and Curley’s Wife to depict the theme: humans will go to extreme measures to…