To Kill A Mocking Bird Character Analysis
...Two men -- Lennie and George -- are the newcomers on a ranch. Lennie is a giant man, much like a bear, who has obvious mental limitations. George is a friend, or the only friend, of Lennie's. George and Lennie travel together and George is Lennie's caretaker. They have a dream of buying a ranch together and living alone, where Lennie can't get into trouble. When these two arrive at the ranch, they are greeted by all the ranch hands. They are Candy, an elderly man who is kept around on the ranch solely out of sympathy because he lost his hand on the ranch, Slim, a man that everyone on the ranch looks up to as somewhat of a leader, Carlson, just a typical ranchman, and a few others. All of these men are nice to George and Lennie, with the exception of Curley. Curley is the boss's son and gets no respect from the other ranchers. He is a newlywed and married to a wife who doesn't love him. Curley's dad, the boss has a Negro working in the stable. The Negro's name is Crooks because he got kicked in the back by a horse and it's now crooked. While on the ranch, George is constantly trying to keep Lennie out of trouble, which is virtually impossible due to Lennie's condition. As you can tell, ranch life is not a good one for anyone. Most ranch people, or more specifically, George, Curley's wife, Candy, and Crooks, lead lonely desperate lives that they can't escape and are constantly trapped in hopeless situations. Just because they can't escape their lives, doesn't mean they don't try. Still, in the end, each of their attempts fail.
Curley's wife is trapped and lonely in a life she doesn't want and can't get escape. When she made a feeble attempt to change, she just ended up ruining everything for herself. The downward spiral of her life began when she meets a man from Hollywood and Curley at a party. The man from Hollywood says that Curley's wife is a natural...
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