Towards the end of the story she find Lennie in the barn and start being flirty because she knows she can make him talk to her. This was a bad quality of hers though because it ultimately led to her demise. The final type of power is the power of authority from Curly and his dad. Curly’s dad is the boss which give Curly his own power, or so he sees it. Curly’s dad has the power to fire anyone he doesn’t like from the farm which is true authority.
“Nothing—I seen your light. I thought I could jus’ come in an’ set” (68). This shows that Lennie is nice to people, he tries to make friends with everybody excluding Curley. George and Lennie are foils because George is cruel to him and always yells at him, while Lennie is nice and tries to make friends with everyone at the ranch. This shows that George and Lennie are foils because their physical traits are different: George being small and Lennie being huge, their intellectual capacity: George being smart and Lennie being simple, and their personality traits: George being cruel to Lennie and Lennie being nice and not caring
Irwin was a paternal figure to Jack in his childhood, and jack proceeds to inform Willie that he does not get scared easily. After Stark told Irwin to retract his support, or dirt would be turned up on him. Judge Irwin angrily kicks out Willie and Jack. Upon leaving the Judges house, Willie Stark orders Jack to find dirt on the judge, and "make it stick". Three years later, Jack reflects of this conversation, realizing that power over someone leads to corruption.
While everyone else is struggling, Curley’s busy picking fights and trying to throw his weight around his dad’s ranch. He seems outside of the economic struggle and even the personal struggle of the Depression. Curley’s the kind of jerk you need in contrast to the other characters. Also, we need someone to be the source of trouble among these men who mostly want to get along.
When Curley saw Lennie gazing off with a smile on his face he got mad and punched Lennie in the face. After Lennie started bleeding pretty bad and wasnt defending himself, George started yelling at Lennie to fight back. Once Lennie decided to fight back he grabbed Curleys wrist and wouldn’t let go. By the time he finally did let go Curley’s hand had a bunch of broken bones in it. Carlson and Slim packed Curley up in the wagon and went to get him help but Slim warned Curley not to tell his father.
Mock Exam – 'Of Mice and Men' – In the novel, 'Of Mice and Men', John Steinbeck presents Curley as a mean and unkind character, who likes to show his authority on the ranch. This is especially shown in the extract. In the extract, Steinbeck presents Curley as someone who wants to follow in his father's footsteps – to be in control of the ranch. 'Like the boss, he wore high-heeled boots.' This shows that Curley wants to separate himself from the other casual ranch hands.
This is why he is easily led because George told him to fight back against Curley and he did and when George tells him to stop he does. He isn't very powerful because he needs George to look after him and tell him what is right and what is wrong. He has a lot of power over Lennie, for instance, ‘for god sakes don’t drink so much’. He can make Lennie do anything he wants him to do. Furthermore, Slim’s power on the ranch makes him a voice of justice throughout the novel.
Stradlater, Holden’s roommate, shows phoniness by how he is a “secret slob” also how it annoys Holden to where he gets into a fight with Stradlater over his sloppiness with Jane, which leads Holden to alienating him. Stradlater is a secret slob because as Holden says, “Stradlater was more of a secret slob. He always looked all right, Stradlater, but for instance, you should have seen the razor he shaved himself with. It was always rusty as hell and full of lather and hairs and crap” (35). This is showing Stradlater is a secret slob because he appears all right on the outside, but once someone gets to know him, they know he is slob.
He has witnessed knife fights, an experience that will later help other jurors change their opinions about the guilt of the accused. Juror #6 is a housepainter, a man who is used to working with his hands rather than analyzing with his brain. He is more of a listener than a talker. He does, however, stand up to the bully, Juror #3 when he speaks rudely to Juror #9, an old man, threatening to hit Juror #3 if he ever speaks to the old man like that again. Juror #7 is a slick, obnoxious salesman whose only concern is to get the deliberations over quickly so he can get to that evening’s baseball game.
In John Steinbeck’s Of Mice and Men, the men on the ranch view symbolism in many different ways. The boss and Slim symbolize respect in different ways. The boss is described as: “On his head was a soiled brown Stetson hat, and he wore high-heeled boots and spurs to prove he was not a laboring man” (pp. 20). The boss only demands respect through how much money he has, and how he appears.