Of Mice and Men

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Of Mice and Men

• Notes
• Chapter 4

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Loneliness

• How do the characters deal with loneliness in
  their lives?

Crooks Not allowed in bunkhouse Reads books
Candy Migrant worker Dog is killed Gets a dog Goes in on the dream
Curleys wife Married to a jerk Only girl on the ranch Flirts with other guys
Curley Small guy Nobody likes him Starts boxing Starts fights
George Migrant worker Lennie causes problems Takes Lennie Confides in others like him (Slim)
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Idioms

• Booby hatch (72) insane asylum
• Corn (79) whisky made of corn
• doped out (83) figured out
• sellin me (78) trying to make one believe
• Take you out of the box reference to death-
  (75) hell be out there until he dies
• Went with shows an entertainer who traveled
  with shows (79)

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Allusions

• Roll up your hoop..
• popular amusement for youth
• -running with large metal hoop
• -his way of saying Curleys wife is immature