Mice And Men Chapter 2
Of Mice and Men Chapter 2
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Chapter ii
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- George and Lennie arrive at the new ranch. In the bunkhouse, they meet an old guy named Candy.
- His proper noun seems particularly inappropriate since he is missing a hand, has bristly white whiskers, and an ancient canis familiaris that stinks.
- Candy gives George the lowdown on the ranch.
- The boss shows up and questions George and Lennie about their work history. George does all the talking, which makes the dominate suspicious.
- He tin't sympathise why George is looking out for Lennie, and, honestly, we're not sure either.
- George lies and says he and Lennie are cousins, and that they left their last job because information technology was done. (He leaves out that the job ended when Lennie was accused of rape/ inappropriate petting.)
- The boss leaves and Candy comes back in with his domestic dog, who used to be a cracking sheepherder before he got old and stinky.
- (Alibi us while we have a brief detour into the mid-90s.)
- Okay, back now. Sorry most that.
- The boss' son comes in. He's a pocket-size-just-cocky tough-guy type and immediately sizes upwardly George and Lennie as potential victims.
- He tries to engage Lennie in an argument, but George interferes.
- The boss' son basically does the equivalent of "LOL UR THE WORST." With that parting shot, he leaves.
- Candy explains things for u.s.. The boss' son—named Curley because he has curly hair—used to be a lightweight fighter and at present picks fights with every big guy he meets.
- He's gotten even worse since he married a "tart," who has "the eye" for every guy on the ranch.
- We're supposed to believe that Curley is now totally whipped. He's fifty-fifty taken to wearing a glove full of Vaseline to "go along his hand soft for his wife."
- With that parting shot, Processed leaves.
- George gives Lennie another piece of fatherly advice: avoid Curley like the plague—unless Curley really touches him, in which example, kick his barrel.
- And if anything bad happens, Lennie'south can go to his safe spot about the river.
- Speak of bad things, Curley'southward wife enters the bunkhouse, "looking" for "Curley." Uh-huh.
- Unlike virtually other characters in the book, Curley's wife has no proper noun, unless y'all consider "tramp," "loo loo," and "jail-bait" to be names. In that case, this lady's got lots of names.
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- Lennie can't take his optics off of Curley'southward married woman, and she doesn't brand it easy to put his eyes anywhere else, either.
- Slim, the "prince of the ranch" (about whom you will hear more afterward), walks by and sends Curley's wife on her mode.
- Time for another lecture for Lennie's do good: stay away from this woman.
- Lennie, with an admirable sense of self-preservation, says that he doesn't similar this place—but they've got to stay until they can buy a ranch of their own.
- Slim now stands in the doorway.
- You go the sense that Steinbeck has a little fleck of a human being-vanquish on Slim: he's practical, tough equally nails, understanding, highly skilled at his job, absurd and calm, and even so humble. Heck, we take a flake of a beat on him.
- In comes another visitor: Carlson, who asks Slim about his new litter of puppies.
- Maybe Slim could give ane of these puppies to Candy as a replacement for his ancient dog, which stinks so bad it deserves to exist shot. (According to Carlson.)
- At the mention of the word "puppy," Lennie starts wriggling with pleasure. Pure petting pleasure.
- If Lennie had a Tumblr, it would totally look like this.
- Curley shows upwards at the door (don't these people do whatever work?) looking for—you lot guessed it—his wife.
- He and George snark at each other a little, but no ane whips out any roundhouse punches. Not however, at least.
- The dinner bell rings. Thank goodness.
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