Sunday, January 29, 2012

ONLY CHAPTER 5,at this point for whom do you feel sympathy? Lennie or Curley's wife?

Your question about Steinbeck's Of Mice and Men
is very much an opinion question.  I'll tell you my answer and give you some
reasons for my opinion, but you really have to answer the question for
yourself.


I feel sympathy for both.  Curley's wife is
ignorant and uneducated and she uses what she's got.  She is also a misfit in the
novel.  She is isolated and mistreated, and is a woman in a man's world.  What options
does she have?  And, of course, she's killed.


Lennie
doesn't mean to kill her, of course, and you can't help but feel sympathy for him.  Like
Curley's wife says, all he talks about is rabbits.  That's pretty much all he thinks
about, unless he thinks about something else that he can pet--like mice or puppies of
Curley's wife's hair.  Society in the novel has no real place for him.  He tries not to
talk to Curley's wife, but of course she won't let him get out of it.  She doesn't
understand the danger.    

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