Of Mice And Men blog for 4/20/15

Of Mice And Men
4/22/15
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            The ranch and Bunkhouse from where George and Lennie work seems dirty and not taken care of properly, but pretty big. The author described the bunkhouse to be a long and rectangular building. The author states "Inside, the walls were whitewashed and unpainted." As you can tell it seems the people who are in charge of the bunkhouse don't really care if the bunkhouse looks neat or taken care of. George also notices a can to remove lice, bugs, or insects from the beds. George worries if he may be sleeping with these kinds of bugs/insects.

             In chapter 2 we were introduced to many new characters that are involved in the book. One of the characters we were introduced to was Slim. Slim seems like a benign person, and has already been making conversations with George. Curley seems to have made a bad impression on George and Lennie. Curley seems to be the opposite of benign. Curley's wife seems to be seductive and tricky, at least George thinks she is just being tricky. These are just of the few characters that I was able to tell how they are by their first impression.

           I think Curly's wife doesn't have a special name for her in the book because that's how it was back then, and how they would call each other's wives like if they were own'ed by their husband. Many people back then would call each other by their last name, or if they were a wife, then like Curly's wife is called. I think this was just common back then, and people thought it was formal to call women that way.