He then focuses on the pigs lips sitting right in front of him on the bar. After watching him observe the lips for quite a bit of time, the barkeep’s nephew finally offers a helping hand and offer up a hint for making them a little more appetizing. This scene is just another way of describing how family and friend oriented this place is. As he tries it with the chips, he finds that it really isn’t that bad. John T. Edge for sure did not leave until he ate those pickled pig lips.
This theme is developed through the characterization of George and Lennie, Candy, Crooks, and Curley’s wife. First of all, George and Lennie had a very special dream. George often recited he dream to Lennie. O.K. Someday – we’re gonna get the jack together and we’re gonna have a little house and a couple of acres an’ a cow some pigs… we’ll have a big vegetable patch… and chickens.
Before Willy passed away the Lomans “[nothing] planted” (122). They had no financial support and no hope for a better future. After Willy died and his seeds were planted in the back yard, the rest of the Loman family could start hoping for a better future. They would have financial support from the life insurance money and use this advantage as a source of hope for a new beginning, paralleling the seeds being planted in fertile soil and growing into a plant. Arthur Miller makes constant references to nature and farming in Death of a Salesman.
In the novel, Candy used to work on the ranch, however, because of an accident, he lost one of his hands. He dose not have any ability to do heavy works, so he has to work as a swamper on the ranch. Coincidentally, after meeting George and Lennie, he is drawn into George and Lennie's dream, and wants to have a similar dream as George's. In the novel, once George tells their future plan to Lennie, Candy thinks it is wonderful to have a own house and do not have to do what they would rather not do, so he tells George that he can contribute to buying a house with his money in order to make George agree to take him together. As shown above, different people might have different backgrounds, different beliefs or different habits.
Thematic Analysis – “The Lottery” Have you ever wondered why your parents made up the story of Santa when we were little? We have a bunch of traditions that we never really question or think why they are there. “The Lottery” by Shirley Jackson is a short story that is a perfect example of people not thinking of traditions. The short story is about a community who sacrifices a member of the community, picked by a draw, in belief they will have a good harvest. The theme of “The Lottery” is society’s resistance to change.
The focal character, Lennie, is inevitably drawn to tragedy, due to his wish for untarnished happiness. The composer of the novella profoundly depicts Lennie’s dream as, ‘livin offa the fatta the lan’. Lennie wishes to have a farm and ‘tend to the rabbits’, with George by his side, however due to obstacles and his untimely fate, he never succeeds with his ambition. When Lennie tells Crooks about his dream, Crooks deflates Lennie's happiness and hope by relaying him with the bitterness of the idea that ‘nobody never gets to heaven, and nobody gets no land.’
She knew you were dumb just as much as I do. Going on about the rabbits we’re going to have, all you remember is them rabbits. We're going to get the jack together and we're going to have a little house and a couple of acres and a cow and some pigs and live of the fat of the land, just like you want. We’ll have that garden we want; with all kinda of vegetables if we want a little whisky we can sell a few eggs or something, or some
Questions – 1. Does the dream farm mean the same thing to Lennie as it does to George? What does it mean to each of them? 2. Once Candy announces he has the money for the ranch, the narrator declares, "This thing they had never really believed in was coming true."
Jus’ milk the cow and sling some grain to the chickens an’ go to her” (Steinbeck61). To the modern day reader this does not seem like much because they are used to such freedoms; however, in the 1930’s for the men working on a ranch it was nothing but their most treasured desire. To George, Lennie, Candy, and Crook the farm was their ticket to a paradise for men who want to be masters of their own
Human Nature and Egotism From a realist’s perspective, human beings do not truly learn from past experiences; humans are predominantly concerned with one thing: self-preservation. In the film Groundhog Day, Phil Connors’ character is a representation of this outlook on human beings. From the first few scenes in the film, one can see Phil’s sarcastic, crude, and egocentric nature. Rita draws upon Phil’s egotism during one of the scenes, quoting Sir Walter Scott, “The wretch, concentrated all in self living, shall forfeit fair renown and, doubly dying, shall go down to the vile dust, from whence he sprung unwept, unhonored, and unsung” (Groundhog Day). A common belief regarding Groundhog Day is that Phil Connors becomes a better human being