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Of Mice And Men Character Analysis

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John Steinbeck was the author of the book “Of Mice and Men”. Of Mice and Men is set in California during the Great Depression. n his book we follow the 2 protagonists, George and Lennie. Lennie is implied to be cognitively impaired, while George looks after him. In the past George used to bully Lennie, until Lennie's Aunt Clara died and asked George to take care of Lennie,George has since changed his ways. At the beginning of the stor George and Lennie are walking down a road to the ranch they will be working at, when they find a pond to camp out at unroll morning. As the story goes George and Lennie make it to the ranch the next day and we are introduced to many characters. All characters have an overarching theme that connects with the main theme of the book. The theme of “Of Mice and Men is loneliness. The first new character we are introduced on the ranch is Candy. Candy is a swamper, which is basically a janitor, had a missing hand, is very old, and has an old dog. Candy’s dog is Candy’s longest and only friend. In many ways they parallel each other, they are both old, crippled, and are both useless to society. Later on in the book another worker named Carlson shoot Candy’s dog for him. Carlson shoots Candy’s dog because it smelled, was hurting just being alive and was useless. Later on in the chapter everyone in the bunkhouse leaves to go see a potential fight between Slim, the leader of George and Lennie and the leader of the ranch workers, and Curley, the hot

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