of mice and men

[connorb]

Curly is only rspected a slight amount. The reason for this is because he is not good at his job. Steinbeck has used curley because

[kierans]

except for the boss (his father) i don't think Curley gets any respect from anyone

[frankie archer]

quotations about dreams and a little on reality for essay:

Dream: "We're gonna have a little house and a couple of acres" - George
lots more on pages 16 and 57-8
Reality: "I seen hundreds if men come by on the road an' on the ranches with their bindles on their backs an' that same damn thing in their heads" Crooks
When George describes it as "someday" it seems that that won't be in the seeable future
"we got ten bucks between us" and "If me an' Lennie work a month an' don't spen' nothing, we'll have a hundred bucks." They need $600, in reality they won't get the money, just a dream."You're nuts." - Crooks

Crooks dreams to be accepted - " The white kids come to play at our place, an' I sometimes went to play with them, and some of them was pretty nice."
Reality: " I ain't wanted in the bunk house, and you ain't wanted in my room." - Crooks.
"I can't play because I'm black. They say I stink. Well, I tell you, you all of you stink to me." - Crooks.
His hostility could possbily be a front to how he really wants to be included, repression?

Dream: "An' you get to tend the rabbits." George
"We gonna have a little place - an' rabbits," Lennie
"George says we're gonna have alfalfa for the rabbits."
Reality: "Jus' a dead mouse."
"I wasn't doin' nothing bad with it, George. Jus' strokin' it."
"I'd pet 'em, and pretty soon they bit my fingers and I pinched their heads a little and then they was dead" Lennie. Pages 8-10 Cant even look after a mouse without killing it yet dreams of looking after many rabbits.

The title "Of Mice and Men" from the poem "To A Mouse" by Robert Burns. This poem suggests that dreams will always go wrong, and since its the title which backs up this idea and what Steinbeck was trying to portray.