Carlson starts talking about how Candy's dog smells and how it is old and suffering and how he can shoot the dog in the back of the head to put it out of its misery and the dog wouldn't even feel a thing candy could get another puppy from Slim. Lenny couldn't swim and almost drowned, but he was so nice to George because he helped him by pulling him out of the river and George never did anything mean to him again.Ĭandy comes back into the bunk house with his dog and an other worker Carlson follows them in shortly after. George use to play lots of jokes on Lenny, so one day he got Lenny to jump into a river. George explains to Slim that him and Lenny were both born in OPER? and that he knew Lenny's Aunt Clara, when she died Lenny went out working with George and they just got use to each other. George thanks Slim for giving Lenny one of his puppies from his dogs new litter. The next Chapter starts an unspecified time later, after working all day George comes into the bunk house with Slim a Jerk line skimmer? (not sure) one of the respected guys of the ranch. Candy says Curly's wife flirts with all the farmers especially Slim.Ĭandy leaves and a little while longer Curly's wife shows up at the door way, she tries to make conversation but George makes it clear he doesn't want to talk to her, Lenny just stares at her. George warns that he better not start with Lenny because he is strong and doesn't fight with any rules. After Curly leaves Candy explains that Curly is a pretty good boxer and he hates big guys like Lenny because he is not big himself. He notices George and Lenny and he asks them a bunch of questions and generally acts like a jerk.
While he is a talking to George and Lenny, Curly comes in looking for the boss who is his father. The boss leaves and an old man named Candy turns up with his old sheep dog. They are going to work bucking barley meaning they paddle large bags with barley up a line and stack them in piles in a truck. The next morning George and Lenny arrive at the farm they are going to work at, they meet the boss. When he is alone and gets into any trouble he should come back to the pond and hide in the brush. Lenny asked George to tell him again how they are different from other guys, George gives a speech he says most guys who work on ranches are lonely they have no family and have nothing to look forward to and don't belong anywhere, but he and Lenny are different and one day they are going to get there own place they will have their own little house and they can raise cows and chicken and have a vegetable patch, they will have a rabbit hutch too and Lenny can look after the rabbits too. The girl complained that she was raped, a mob formed to try and catch Lenny. But when Lenny touched the dress the girl screamed, Lenny panicked and grabbed hold of the dress. Lenny saw a girl in a red dress and he liked the look of her dress so much that he wanted to touch it. George complains that his life would be so easier if he didn't have to take care of Lenny he wouldn't have to worry about Lenny getting into trouble, like he did at the last farm. Lenny remembers a woman use to give him mice but stopped because he kept killing them while petting them with his heavy hands, George reminds Lenny the woman was Lenny's Aunt Clara. George notices Lenny is holding something and makes him hand it over its a dead mouse that Lenny was petting in his pocket, George makes him hand it over then he throws it into the brush. George takes care of Lenny, they have a dream of one day getting their own farm.Īt the beginning of the book George and Lenny arrive at a small pond they have been travelling all day on their way to a farm, they stop for a rest. They are also unusual because they are different from one another George is small and shrewd, while Lenny is large and has a mental disability. George and Lenny are unusual because they always stick together as Migrant workers and loners. The story is centered on these two Migrant workers George Milton and Lennie Small, who travel together looking for jobs on the farm in California Salinas Valley. The characters fear losing the (weak) connection they already have. One main theme of Mice and Men is loneliness, as almost every character wants to make a connection with someone but fails to do so. Of Mice and Men is a novella written by John Steinbeck and published in 1937.
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