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Of Mice And Men 

4/22/2015

John Zalazinski

The atmosphere of the ranch and the bunkhouse seem to be a little bit tense sometimes. An example of this would be George always getting frustrated with Lennie. When they were finally introduced to The Boss and he wouldn't let Lennie say anything because George thinks when ever Lennie opens his mouth he is going to mess everything up. This happened when George mentioned Lennie was "...strong as a bull" then Lennie repeated him and immediately got scolded by George and made the Boss suspicious of them.

The atmosphere can also be positive because during Christmas the Boss brought a whole gallon of whisky and said to the workers "Drink hearty boys. Christmas comes but once a year." This can hint that he is mostly nice to his workers and treats them well. This compels the workers to do well for him and the Boss would often do something kind in return.  The workers would be calm after work and could relax rather than worry about what they did wrong.

I think Curley's wife doesn't have a name because of the way women were treated back then. Curley didn't care what her name was as long as she was attractive he was alright and didn't really care about her name. I think the message that was sent is that women were treated more like objects than an equal human being. Even George insulted her calling her a tramp and a b**** because he wanted to convince Lennie she was nothing but a waste of time. Men wanted someone just to do things for them and they do nothing in return, sort of like robots now with us.




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