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Of Mice and Men – end of book notes Lennie Candy Crooks Curley’s Wife Foreshadowing
 * Starts the story with a dead mouse in his pocket
 * Doesn’t mean to kill mice
 * Then he kills the puppy he loves
 * Then Curley’s Wife dies
 * George sees the pattern
 * The girl in Weed, they had to leave
 * George knows he has to deal with this
 * Has been responsible for his dog for years
 * Lets Carlson shoot his dog
 * Regrets it later
 * Foreshadowing!
 * Adds himself to George & Lennie’s dream
 * Hopes the dream can keep going
 * Steinbeck showing racial prejudice
 * Leads to real loneliness
 * Dreams don’t last for him
 * Can’t go in the bunkhouse
 * Can play horseshoes with the guys
 * It’s outside
 * Childhood on a farm in California
 * Had to learn about prejudice
 * The real world, as he grew up
 * He scares Lennie
 * Tells him George might be hurt
 * Crooks never has power over anyone
 * Wants to try it
 * And wants someone else to see how lonely he is
 * He is scared by Curley’s Wife
 * She threatens him with death
 * Makes him drop the new dream
 * Steinbeck showing possible woman’s loneliness
 * In the wrong place for her
 * Cute shoes!
 * She met a guy at a dance who said he could get her into show business
 * She never got the letter
 * She blames her mom, but . ..
 * Talks to Lennie in the barn
 * Because she’s lonely
 * He’s friendly
 * She doesn’t see the danger
 * Doesn’t see the danger connected to the dead puppy
 * Why doesn’t she have a name?
 * Steinbeck is showing us how trapped she is
 * Men only see her in relation to Curley
 * Curley sees her as property
 * Lennie kills
 * Mice
 * Puppy
 * Curley’s Wife
 * Candy’s dog killed by Carlson
 * Then Lennie killed by George