Roll your hoop. a popular amusement of children in the past was running while rolling a large metal hoop with a stick. Telling Curley's wife to "roll your hoop," is Candy's way of calling her young and immature. Bindle.
The title of this novella is an allusion to the poem “To a Mouse” by Robert Burns, specifically connecting to the lines “The best laid schemes o' Mice an' Men / Gang aft agley, / An' lea'e us nought but grief an' pain, / For promis'd joy!”
Where did the bus drop George and Lennie off? The bus dropped them off 2 miles form the ranch near Salinas River.
kewpie doll lamp a lamp with a base made from a children's toy.
Steinbeck uses hyperbole to describe the grief of loneliness, as this is an ongoing theme throughout the book. When Lennie is sitting with Crooks in his house, Crooks says: ''A guy goes nuts if he ain't got nobody…a guy gets too lonely an' he gets sick. '' This hyperbole serves to emphasize how lonely Crooks is.
Alliteration—A string of words beginning with the same consonant. General Example: Susie sold seashells by the seashore. Of Mice and Men Example: “On the sand banks, the rabbits sat as quietly as little gray, sculptured stones” (2).
Curley apologises to Slim for accusing him of being with his wife and the men mock him for his insecurity about her. Angry, Curley accuses Lennie of laughing at him and starts to punch him; Lennie panics but does not react until George shouts at him to fight back. Lennie grabs Curley's hand and crushes it.
He and Lennie share a dream of buying their own piece of land, farming it, and, much to Lennie's delight, keeping rabbits. George ends the night by treating Lennie to the story he often tells him about what life will be like in such an idyllic place.
Why did Aunt Clara stop giving Lennie mice? Because she died.
• yella- jackets in his drawers: Yellow- jackets are a form of wasps (see a picture of. some wasps). Drawers, in this case, are underwear. Whit's description of Curley is a. lot like saying that he has ants in his pants; that is, that he is restless and nervous.
Curley's wife is never named in the novel, which reflects how she is not valued as a person. Her character demonstrates the negative attitude towards women that may have been held by men such as the ranchworkers at the time.
Curley wears a “glove fulla Vaseline” on one hand because, according to Candy, “he's keepin' that hand soft for his wife.” Since farm work is physical and tough on a person's hands, the Vaseline will prevent at least one of Curley's hands from becoming chapped and rough—something he clearly believes his wife would find ...