Of Mice And Men

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were
whitewashed and the floor unpainted." Later he says, " Against the walls
were eight bunks, five of them made up with blankets and the other three
showing their burlap ticking." So far we get the idea that the bunkhouse
was not the most beautiful place to live in, one of the only forms of
entertainment in the bunkhouse was playing cards. Steinbeck described this
setting with images of light and darkness next to each other. As Steinbeck
said outside there is "evening brightness" and inside there is "dusk". When
Steinbeck says that inside there is dusk, it's almost like a foreshadow of
what's going to happen in the future. Most likely something bad will happen
and it does.

The situation during this scene involves mostly Curly and Lennie in
which they get into a fist fight. This fight starts off because of Curly's
jealousy. This was a very violent scene of jealousy and the innocence of
Lennie and how much he relies on George. Most of this Chapter was in the
bunkhouse. It starts ...

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until
Lennie draws blood. Lennie is of course bewildered about the whole thing
because he doesn't know what to do. So naturally he turns to George and
asks what he should do. And instead of George and the other guys breaking
up the fight, the continually let Curly beat Lennie up. So George tells
Lennie to fight back, but Lennie has never fought before so he does the
only he could do, he grabs Curly's hand and flops Curly around until it is
crushed. Lennie would not let go of Curly's hand until George told him to.
Finally George told him to let go and Lennie went from the Incredible Hulk
to that innocent little boy again. Curly was told afterwards not to say
anything, and that he ...

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