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Of Mice and Men
Section 1
The book starts out with a description of the setting, a river bed in rural California
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This story takes places around the time of the Great
Depression, meaning that practically everyone is poor, and looking for some kind of job in order to “put food
on the table
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Complete opposites, yet
somehow end up becoming partners on their dull journey of traveling throughout rural Cali in order to find a
job
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On the inside he’s a petite
child-like man
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One of the major problems for Lennie is that he likes to “pet” things, for a long time, and very strongly
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For “petting” a girl
in a red dress Lennie had costed his and George’s job
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In the bunkhouse, they meet an old guy named Candy
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Candy gives George the low job on the ranch
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George does all the talking, which makes the boss suspicious
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George lies and says
he and Lennie are cousins, and that they left their last job because it was done
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The boss leaves and Candy comes back in
with his dog, who used to be a great sheepherder before he got old and stinky
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He's a small-but-cocky tough-guy type and immediately sizes up George and Lennie as potential victims
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Candy explains things
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George gives Lennie another piece of fatherly advice: avoid Curley like the plague—
unless Curley actually touches him, in which case, kick his butt
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Speaking of bad things, Curley's wife enters the bunkhouse, "looking" for
"Curley
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Lennie can't take his eyes off of Curley's wife, and she doesn't
make it easy to put his eyes anywhere else, either
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Lennie then gets another Lecture, this time about staying away from Curley’s
wife
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Curley shows up at the door looking for his wife
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Not yet, at least
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Section 3
Slim and George walk into the bunkhouse together
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Slim asks
know why a "cuckoo" like Lennie and a "smart little guy" like George are traveling around together
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George also tells
Slim what happened in Weed with the girl in the red dress—she got frightened of Lennie's petting, cried
rape, and he and Lennie had to run for their lives
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Carlson comes in and complains again about the smell wafting off of Candy's dog and offers to shoot the
creature
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Slim, sides with Carlson
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George
pretends to play cards
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Finally, a shot is heard in the distance, and
Candy turns his face to the wall
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This is the first time Crooks is
introduced
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He has to live by himself
because he's black, and black people aren't allowed to live with white people
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Whit, another ranch hand, engages George in
conversation about Curley's wife, who he says is a "loo loo
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" All this talk leads Whit to invite George along on the Saturday-night-trip to the local
brothel
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George tells Lennie he'd take a good brothel over "jail bait" any day
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George complies
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George and Candy are particularly excited about
being able to go where they want, when they want; Lennie is mostly stoked about the rabbits and other
garden bits
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All the other guys come back in
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" Lennie grabs Curley's hand as it's
coming toward his face, and essentially crushes it completely
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If
he tries to get Lennie fired, Slim will tell everyone what really happened
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