authorial+intent

Authorial intent Of Mice and Men characters Who isn’t suffering in this story? Lit Crit lenses Movies of books make this more complicated
 * Candy – old and physically disabled
 * Lennie – mentally disabled
 * Curley’s wife – doesn’t have a name
 * George – migrant farm worker, no regular home
 * Crooks – physically disabled, suffers from racial prejudice
 * This cast of characters isn’t an accident. All of these people are powerless to some degree.
 * Slim – best skinner around. Belongs on the ranch.
 * Curley – boss’s son. Belongs on the ranch.
 * o Later gets his hand hurt, loses his dream.
 * Carlson – seems to belong where he is.
 * Consider author’s intent
 * o Is this book anti-female?
 * o Or has the author made this choice to make a point?
 * § She’s one of the powerless
 * Consider the author’s assumptions
 * o Things the author’s not thinking about
 * § Cultural things we don’t consider
 * o What about Mount Rushmore?
 * § Purpose: memorial to nation’s founders
 * § Assumptions:
 * Important people in US history were white men
 * Land sacred to the Lakota Sioux was unimportant
 * o So – what does the text show outside the author’s plan?
 * Book’s author & culture
 * o One way to read the text
 * Movie’s director starts with the book
 * o Adds own interpretation
 * § Chosen changes – why?
 * o Assumptions
 * § Just like the author