of mice and men
TRANSCRIPT
Of Mice and Men
By Justin Ehrenpreis
Author
John Stienbeck
Setting
California, 1930
By Justin Ehrenpreis
Charactors
Lennie
Huge, strong, mentally challenged, likes to pet soft animals, acts like a child, hard worker, gets in trouble, doesn’t know his own strength
George
Small, takes care of Lennie
Curley
Bosses sun, boxer, doesn’t like big guys, hand crushed by Lennie in a fight
Slim
Jeckline skinner god like
Carlson
Owns a Luger (pistol), shoots Candy’s dog
Candy
Sweeper (sweeps out bunkhouse), lost hand in a machine, feels useless, plans to join George and Lennie’s dream
Crooks
Black stable buck, lives in room in barn by himslef
By Justin Ehrenpreis
Dreams
George and Lennie’s dream
To live off the fat of the land
Candy’s dream
To be useful
Crooks dream
To be accepted
Curley’s wife’s dream
To be a movie star
Literary terms
Conflict- Lennie and Curley Laughing
Crooks- isolated