Setting
The valley in which our story takes place
What is the Salinas Valley
The name of this character is somewhat ironic as the man is VERY big
Who is Lennie Small
The man George lies to about being dropped off "10 miles" from the ranch
Who is the boss?
The first person to bring up the theme of a dream in the first chapter
Who is Lennie Small
This historical period is primarily known for a large dust-bowl and high unemployment and homelessness.
What is the Great Depression?
This building is shown to be a rectangular old room with an old table and four boxes set around playing cards.
What is the bunkhouse?
This character is rather pugnacious and always wanting to start a fight.
Who is Curley?
This person asks Lennie not to say a word when they are at work on account that Lennie might get in trouble.
This character introduces their own dream of a friend having a letter published in an old ranchmen's magazine.
Who is Young Whit?
These towns were named after an American President that was perceived to be failing the American people during the Great Depression
What are Hoovervilles?
The inside of this room has a lot more personal possessions and many many books
What is Crooks' room
These characters have a small argument after one chases the other into the barn, however, the fight doesn't turn out the way the ranch-hands predicted
Who are Slim and Curley?
This person joins the dream farm plans after we find they got a windfall from an accident on the ranch
Who is Candy?
This is the level (percentage) of unemployment reached during the Great Depression
What is 25% or 1 in 4 people.
In this town George and Lennie got into trouble for the first time, prompting them to hide in the ditch.
What is Weed, California
Who is Curley's Wife?
These two characters came to blows over a misunderstanding resulting in this catastrophic injury
What is Curley's crushed hand.
In this chapter, Lennie and George tell each other for the first time why they are different from the other ranch hands. They have each other to watch their backs.
What is chapter one.
The types of people Steinbeck loved to write about the most
Who are the Underdogs or Marginalized people during the 1930s
This setting structure helps the reader understand that not many things have truly changed from the beginning of the novel to the end. The ranch-hands are still lonely and nobody was able to get land.
What is Cyclical structure pr a return to status quo?
This character shows up as a berating hallucination, prompting us to ask what is really going on in Lennie's head.
Who is Aunt Clara.
This item was said to have been stolen, causing the men to be more careful during their search.
What is Carlson's Luger pistol?
This character is often seen to be the most lonely of all the people on the ranch, sometimes they get so lonely they don't know what is what.
Who is Crooks
This war wound up pulling the U.S. out of the Great Depression, working along with the changes from Franklin Delano Roosevelt's New Deal policies.
What is WWII?