Of Mice and Men

I feel that the bunkhouse has a lot of negative energy. There is all this rudeness being spread and Candy is kind of bad mouthing Curley behind his back. I feel this negative energy is spread from the boss because he is very rude, and judgmental towards his workers. Then it reached to his son who is almost a carbon copy of him. Then the cycle of negativity just goes on and on.

Like on page 27 when George said, "This guy Lennie is a son-of-a-bitch to me, I don't like the mean little guys." Also, the swamper or Candy tends to gossip a lot so far in the story which is not really a good thing to do, knowing stuff about everyone. "Curley says he's keepin' that hand soft for his wife." That for example, he shouldn't know that. Other than those incidents of negativity, there have been many others and this proves that it is not a healthy environment for George and Lennie to be housed in to do their work. The atmosphere is also positive. George and Lennie seem to be getting along with Slim so far. Slim also was referred to as a, "hella of a nice fella..." according to Candy. He seems to play the nice guy role pretty well.

Now onto the ranch, the ranch specifically has not been described like the other setting locations we have encountered. Maybe John Steinbeck left that for chapter three to build up a plot or conflict at the ranch.

Curely's wife does not have a name is because of the timeline the story takes place, I will elaborate. As you know, unfortunately African Americans were referred as "niggers." The men probably treat the women like African Americans because like the African Americans, they were not looked at as equals to the men. Like on page 32 when George said, "Don't you even look  at that bitch... I seen em' poisen before, but I never seen no piece of jail bait worse that her." According to George, women obviously are not shown with respect just like that African Americans.