Ranch

handicapped man. Steinbeck's treatment of Candy suggests that, within a competitive society, the strong will benefit from the weak. Three characters who are more powerful than Candy use his weaknesses against him so that they may profit from his work. One ‘ranch hand’ who has more power than Candy is Carlson. Candy’s handicap of not having a right hand is intentionally repeated by Steinbeck throughout the story. Carlson has the qualities of a Jester archetype. Carlson only worries about what is…

George and Lennie try to achieve the ranch together, later on Candy takes part in the plan and befriends the two. And for last, Curley’s wife confides in Lennie about her dreams when she was young. John Steinbeck’s characters George and Lennie had been together since the beginning. A secret they had been hiding was their dream ranch: the idea that…

Smalls, who all view themselves as more or less powerful than the others on the ranch go through life very differently because of this perceived power that they wield. No man on the ranch knows perceived power quite like Curley. Curley is a hot-headed man who uses violence to assert his masculinity and authority over the ranch hands. It’s clear that the only real power he has is the fact that his father owns the ranch, and while that is significant, Curley would believe that they all have a…

- Helen Keller In John Steinbeck's Of Mice & Men, a story is told of George & Lennie's ambition of owning a ranch of their own. Lennie's character suffers from a mental disorder that presents itself in Lennie's childish behaviors. George dedicates much of his time towards looking after Lennie, making sure his actions do not get them into trouble. They have just started a job at a new ranch when Lennie's choices put them both into a difficult situation, which leaves George with a challenging…

blames Curley’s wife for. He had always wanted to belong somewhere and raising the ranch was a big goal that he seemed really thrilled about. After realizing that Curley’s wife was dead. He was still hopeful in thinking that he and George could still raise the ranch, but being present in this hostile moment, it was obvious that there was no hope for either of them. There was no possible way that Candy could raise the ranch now and all he has left is the anger that gradually builds up which is…

loneliness. George Milton is the loneliest character in the book. He’s a lonely ranch worker moving from job to job, his only friend is mentally challenged, and has to kill his only friend. George is lonely because he’s a ranch worker. Ranch workers have no family and move from job to job. “Guys like us, that work on ranches, are the loneliest guys in the world. They got no family. They don’t belong no place. They come to a ranch and work up a stake, and first thing you know they go and blow…

move to the town of Soledad (which translates from Spanish to ‘solitude’ to look for work on a ranch. Steinbeck uses many different techniques to explore the theme of loneliness in the novel through the use of setting, symbolism and characterisation. Steinbeck uses various examples to show the theme of loneliness through the setting of the novel. For example, Crook’s is isolated from all the other ranch workers primarily because he is black. He lives alone in a little room with only little…

only black man on the ranch, he is segregated from the rest of the ranch workers. When Lennie comes into his room, Lennie questions “‘Why ain’t you wanted?’’ (Steinbeck 68). It is evident that other ranch workers do not acknowledge and have no empathy for Crooks. On the other hand, Crooks himself has experienced racism and segregation his whole life and never had to adjust to this living standard. Moreover, Crooks goal is to be able to do daily activities with the rest of the ranch workers, or…

and George, they moved from Weed and settled to a ranch in Soledad, California in the early 1930’s during the Great Depression. John Steinbeck wrote this marvelous tale that revolves around the theme: Price of Progress. Lennie, George, Curley, Curley’s Wife, Crooks, and Candy are some of the characters that helped mold the theme. They all wanted to accomplish a certain task that in return cost them a whole lot. Let’s begin with Curley, he is the ranch owner’s son that Lennie and George works…

got your mail.” “Oh, okay” “There's a letter in there from the people” “What people?” “The people that own that ranch, we are still doin’ the ranch, right?” “Yeah, sure, we can do it.” George went to go tell crooks the plan about the ranch. The next day, they told everybody that they were going on to make their dreams come true. They left the ranch. On their way to their new ranch, they got onto a bus and went about twenty miles north of Soledad into Old Hilltown. They walked up onto the…