Animals
Rabbits
Symbol of hope, and future dreams.
Lennie
Symbolizes innocence, and vulnerability.
Dream Farm
Symbolizes hope for the future.
"You seen what they done to my dog tonight?"-Candy (chapter 3)
Symbol for loneliness, and aging.
Candy's dog
Symbolizes Candy, loneliness, and getting older.
George
Symbolizes a protector, and parental figure for Lennie.
Crook's Room
Symbol for discrimination
"Nobody ever gets to Heaven, and nobody gets no land"-Crooks (chapter 4)
Symbolizes isolation, and broken dreams/discrimination.
Mice
Symbolizes Lennie's innocence, and vulnerability.
Curley's Wife
Symbolizes loneliness/false sense of hope.
Bunkhouse
Symbol for friendship, and companionship.
"I got you to look after me, and you got me to look after you, and that's why"-Lennie (chapter 1)
Symbolizes companionship.
Slim's puppies
Symbolizes how people had to fend for themselves at the time, and weakness/also foreshadows what happens to Curley's wife.
Curley
Symbolizes insecurity, and need for approval.
Salinas River
Symbolizes a place of peace, a sanctuary for Georgie/Lennie, and represents their dream.
"I could get you strung up on a tree so easy it ain't even funny."-Curley's Wife (chapter 6)
Symbolizes discrimination.