Who Is The Smallest Character In Of Mice And Men
While Of Mice and Men had funny and happy moments, it shows the readers that there can be many obstacles in the way of a person's life, the smallest character can make a big impact on the book, and it shows that even every character can play a significant role.
Almost every character isn't allowed to be their self in this book. Something is constantly in the way of their true selves. Crooks wants to be one of the guys, but the thing holding him back his the decade he was born and racism. “”George would have a better life without Lennie and would be ale to be who he wants to be. Candy wants to keep his forever friend(his dog), but is basically forced to have his dog shot. All Lennie wants to do is pet soft things, but he is too “big and …show more content…
Lennie is too dumb to function. George’s life is ruined because it can never be normal with having to take care of Lennie all the time. Crooks was born in a time where the color of your skin determined your social ranking, he was on the bottom. Curley's wife wanted to go off and be an actress, but she is stuck with an abusive husband that doesn't treat her like she is any better than what is on the bottom of this his shoe. “The tragedy is that, limited as the characters are, the world they live in is even more limited; it is a world in which the simplest dream of the simplest man—poor dumb big Lennie—cannot come true(Scarseth).” I agree that every character has an impact on Mice of Men, and that they all teach the readers about tragedy. In this book the audience is shown the dark;twitsy parts of a real life. Steinbeck actually tells a story about real people with there own unfixable problems. People can relate to this book and love this book for that soul purpose. "Why ain't you wanted?" Lennie asked. “Cause I'm black. They play cards in there, but I can't play because I'm black. They say I stink. Well, I tell you, you all of you stink to me(Steinbeck 68)."This quote shows how crooks is not socially accepted because of his racial …show more content…
Each character, whether small or big, had a significant role in mice of men. With each little snip bit of the characters point of views or lives, you get another piece of the puzzle, revealing eventually their tragedy. All the characters build up and their own tragedies and it concludes into a big lesson. “The style is simple: clear, direct sentences of description and action, direct quotation of the speech of simple people. Few long words, no hard words. The action is simple: two poor and vagrant workers, big, dumb Lennie and small, clever George, take jobs at a large ranch. Lennie has trouble with the Boss's son, Curley. Lennie accidentally—more or less—kills Curley's wife. George kills Lennie to save him from the horrors of a lynch mob led by Curley, bent on revenge.The settings are simple in detail, and simply powerfully symbolic(Scarseth).” I agree with Scarseth because each character has a different tragically and it explains how difficult peoples lives can actually be and it tells the audience the reality. In a perfect world everyone would be happy, but there isn't a perfect world. “I ought to of shot that dog myself, George. I shouldn't ought to of let no stranger shoot my dog(Steinbeck 61).”This quote shows me how Candy was effected by Carlson shooting his dog and it shows a snip bit of his personal life with his
Almost every character isn't allowed to be their self in this book. Something is constantly in the way of their true selves. Crooks wants to be one of the guys, but the thing holding him back his the decade he was born and racism. “”George would have a better life without Lennie and would be ale to be who he wants to be. Candy wants to keep his forever friend(his dog), but is basically forced to have his dog shot. All Lennie wants to do is pet soft things, but he is too “big and …show more content…
Lennie is too dumb to function. George’s life is ruined because it can never be normal with having to take care of Lennie all the time. Crooks was born in a time where the color of your skin determined your social ranking, he was on the bottom. Curley's wife wanted to go off and be an actress, but she is stuck with an abusive husband that doesn't treat her like she is any better than what is on the bottom of this his shoe. “The tragedy is that, limited as the characters are, the world they live in is even more limited; it is a world in which the simplest dream of the simplest man—poor dumb big Lennie—cannot come true(Scarseth).” I agree that every character has an impact on Mice of Men, and that they all teach the readers about tragedy. In this book the audience is shown the dark;twitsy parts of a real life. Steinbeck actually tells a story about real people with there own unfixable problems. People can relate to this book and love this book for that soul purpose. "Why ain't you wanted?" Lennie asked. “Cause I'm black. They play cards in there, but I can't play because I'm black. They say I stink. Well, I tell you, you all of you stink to me(Steinbeck 68)."This quote shows how crooks is not socially accepted because of his racial …show more content…
Each character, whether small or big, had a significant role in mice of men. With each little snip bit of the characters point of views or lives, you get another piece of the puzzle, revealing eventually their tragedy. All the characters build up and their own tragedies and it concludes into a big lesson. “The style is simple: clear, direct sentences of description and action, direct quotation of the speech of simple people. Few long words, no hard words. The action is simple: two poor and vagrant workers, big, dumb Lennie and small, clever George, take jobs at a large ranch. Lennie has trouble with the Boss's son, Curley. Lennie accidentally—more or less—kills Curley's wife. George kills Lennie to save him from the horrors of a lynch mob led by Curley, bent on revenge.The settings are simple in detail, and simply powerfully symbolic(Scarseth).” I agree with Scarseth because each character has a different tragically and it explains how difficult peoples lives can actually be and it tells the audience the reality. In a perfect world everyone would be happy, but there isn't a perfect world. “I ought to of shot that dog myself, George. I shouldn't ought to of let no stranger shoot my dog(Steinbeck 61).”This quote shows me how Candy was effected by Carlson shooting his dog and it shows a snip bit of his personal life with his