The Ranch Is a Dangerous Place for Many Characters in of Mice and Men

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During the 1930s in America there was a huge amount of unemployment and poverty throughout the country due to the Great Depression. This depression was caused by the crash of America's stocks markets plus a large drought, which spread across most of America making it almost impossible to farm and grow produce. Due to the lack of jobs Bosses of many Ranches were able to reduced the pay and working conditions of many workers leading to famine and huge poverty. Shanty towns were built on the edges of highways from scraps of corrugated iron and other inadequate building materials. Due to the Great Depression America was made a very dangerous place for many different types of people. These types of people include George and Lennie, who are working class itinerants seeking a job on a ranch to gain enough money to make a living. Throughout their time at the ranch they come across a number of different dangers, and others who are also in very difficult and dangerous positions because of how they are seen in American society in the 1930s during the Great Depression. Curly is seen as an immediate danger to both George and Lennie due to his aggressive personality and his important ranking in the ranch. He is a professional 'Lightweight' Boxer and as he is physically quite small he makes himself seem bigger by wearing a Stetson hat and high boots giving him a more powerful and influential look. This choice of clothing says a lot about his power hungry personality , plus he has the tendency to bathe in the light of his father, who is the boss of the ranch. When Curly first meets the two newcomers he immediately attacks Lennie verbally saying 'let the Big guy talk'. This is perhaps because Curly does not like the idea of having someone, who is more physically powerful than him working on the ranch. Curly's intense dislike towards Lennie immediately puts both Lennie's
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