Of Mice and Men

By Justin Ehrenpreis

Author

John Stienbeck

Setting

California, 1930

By Justin Ehrenpreis

Charactors

Lennie

Huge, strong, mentally challenged, likes to pet soft animals, acts like a child, hard worker, gets in trouble, doesn’t know his own strength

George

Small, takes care of Lennie

Curley

Bosses sun, boxer, doesn’t like big guys, hand crushed by Lennie in a fight

Slim

Jeckline skinner god like

Carlson

Owns a Luger (pistol), shoots Candy’s dog

Candy

Sweeper (sweeps out bunkhouse), lost hand in a machine, feels useless, plans to join George and Lennie’s dream

Crooks

Black stable buck, lives in room in barn by himslef

By Justin Ehrenpreis

Dreams

George and Lennie’s dream

To live off the fat of the land

Candy’s dream

To be useful

Crooks dream

To be accepted

Curley’s wife’s dream

To be a movie star

Literary terms

Conflict- Lennie and Curley Laughing

Crooks- isolated