In other words, Rex cares about his kids and puts in effort to come up with these stories, just to make them happy. When parents truly love their children, they do not intentionally abuse them in any way. Only once throughout the entire memoir, had Rex abused his child and when he did, Jeannette “…expected him to turn and walk away…” (220). Jeannette expects her dad to simply walk away, implying that he has never whipped her before. Of Course the only reason that he did it was to discipline Jeannette, so he had never once took out his anger on his kids, even during his drunk rages; he cared about them
If Lennie hadn’t been so bloody stupid we’d till be livin’ in Weed off the fat of the land, But Lennie had to do somethin’ wrong as usual didn’t he? Stupid bastard, I sure hope Lennie don’t go grabbin’ no other girls just to feel a damn dress. He better not get any damn idea about Curley’s wife. Curley’s already onto Lennie. I do love Lennie but its hard movin’ from ranch to ranch with him there all the time; 24/7.
Also all the women here are not getting along because of our race, religion and different skin. This is really bad because we should be getting along and helping each other to get out of this messed up place. The cause of this probably due to lack of resource: food, stuff and other things and also fear which they can’t think straight. William am trying my best to keep them from separating and to get along together because this will help us survive from the Japanese soldier. One night a women name Wing sneak in some medicine to save Mrs. Roberts because she was really sick and people didn’t notice but among the girls they have a snitch in group.
Robin Jenkins first shows you how different the little girl is, “red eyed dissenter”. This shows that the little girl could be angry or has maybe been crying. I think Jenkins has used ‘dissenter’ to identify Margaret as different from everyone else suggesting her loneliness and isolation from the others. Loneliness is a theme throughout ‘Flowers’ which shows that life can be very unpleasant especially if you are alone. The theme of loneliness continues when, after Miss Laing tells the children to go pick flowers they all “scamper off” but the little girl doesn’t.
He always says how it’d be so much easier without Lennie in his life but he obviously knows he would do anything to protect him. Lennie and George left the town of Weed because of how Lennie loved the feeling of soft things, and when he saw the woman’s soft red dress he just wanted to touch it, and he did. The woman didn’t know what to do, she just had a big man rubbing her so she called rape and George and Lennie had to run out of that town, they ran because George didn’t want Lennie to have horrible consequences from the town and get
When told that his daughter, Betty, was ill because of "unnatural causes," Paris quickly interjected, "No, no. There be no unnatural causes here." The Reverend denied this all even with seeing the girls dancing in the woods. With Reverend being in denial, he was unable to consider all causes of the problem. He was so quick to blow off the idea that witchcraft caused her sickness because he was too worried his reputation would get shot with that possibility.
Hale points out that the messy sewing is a sign of nervousness. Mrs. Peters disagrees and tries to defend Mrs. Wright by saying that when she gets tired her sewing becomes a messy. The quilt showed a disturbance in Mrs. Wright's life. The knotting of the quilt seemed to be the same type of knot used to strangle Mr. Wright. The women noticed that trifle, but the men were too busy looking at the dead body and making inferences about how Mr. Wright was killed that they overlooked the similar knotting of the quilt and of the rope around Mr. Wright's neck.
Also, if the husband wasn’t using substances every night, he would realize that his underlying problems are not with Robert, but with himself. However, the couple always evades their issues. Robert is an innocent bystander in this story. He is not aware of the miscommunication that the couple is having. He is a catalyst that brings the couple’s problems to the surface.
They had previously been working in a town called Weed but had to leave because Lennie tried to pet a girls dress, just like he used to pet mice. The girl had gotten scared and tried to run away but then Lennie had gotten afraid himself. And when Lennie gets afraid he starts holding things harder then he already is. The girl had gotten away but Lennie had ripped her dress and she, of course, screamed rape. George often mentions that life without Lennie would be much better.
Dee was consistently ungrateful and displeased with her life despite her mother's hard work. “I see her [Dee] standing off under the sweet gum tree she used to dig gum out of; a look of concentration on her face as she watched the last dingy gray board of the house fall in toward the red hot brick chimney. Why don't you do a dance around the ashes? I'd wanted to ask her. She had hated the house that much.” This shows just how much Dee cared about her lifestyle and the location of the house.