CHARACTERIZATION
When the narrator directly tells the reader a character’s traits.
What is direct characterization?
An educated guess based on evidence from the text.
What is an inference?
Hints or clues about future events.
What is foreshadowing?
Being emotionally or physically isolated.
What is loneliness?
The novel takes place during this historical period.
What is the Great Depression?
When readers learn about a character through actions, dialogue, or thoughts.
What is indirect characterization?
Candy offering his money to the dream farm suggests what fear?
What is fear of loneliness?
Lennie killing the mouse predicts this later event.
What is Lennie killing Curley’s wife?
Crooks living alone in the barn represents this theme.
What is discrimination?
The ranch’s isolation mainly increases this feeling.
What is loneliness?
This character is described as proud, isolated, and defensive.
Who is Crooks?
Crooks letting Lennie stay in his room suggests he secretly wants this.
What is companionship?
Candy’s dog being shot foreshadows this.
What is Lennie’s death?
George and Lennie’s bond best represents this theme.
What is friendship?
Why does the novel begin and end in the same place?
What is to show nothing truly changes?
Curley’s aggressive behavior mainly comes from this.
What is insecurity about his size and power?
Nature descriptions often reflect what in the story?
What is future events or mood?
George telling Lennie to hide by the river foreshadows what moment?
What is the ending of the novel?
The farm dream mainly represents this idea.
What is the American Dream?
The American Dream gives characters hope but ultimately leads to this.
What is disappointment?
Lennie copying George’s actions shows this character trait.
What is Lennie’s dependence on George?
George killing Lennie shows this type of love.
What is mercy or protective love?
Why does Steinbeck use foreshadowing so often?
What is to build tension and prepare the reader?
Steinbeck suggests dreams are mostly this for migrant workers.
What is unrealistic but comforting?
Steinbeck’s message about the American Dream is that it is mostly this for poor workers.
What is unattainable?