Setting- 2 or 3 significant places

1. chapter 6

1.1. death of Lennie

1.1.1. Materials

1.1.2. Personel

1.1.3. Services

1.1.4. Duration

1.2. river imagery

1.2.1. still

1.2.1.1. hope has gone

2. Brush-Chapter one

2.1. safe sanctury

2.2. river imagery

2.2.1. 'runs'

2.2.1.1. river=journey=hope

2.2.2. deep and green

2.2.2.1. natural,fresh

2.2.2.2. hope but also tragedy

2.3. idilic setting

2.3.1. "golden"

2.3.1.1. Steinbeck emphasises the imagery in chapter one to make it seem like a paradise

2.4. ash pile

2.4.1. hope dies

2.4.1.1. itinerant workers cycle

3. Introduction

3.1. American Dream

3.2. 1930s great depression

4. Crooks's room

4.1. 'mauled copy of the California civil code for 1905' implies that he does not get the rights that he deserves and he knows it.

4.1.1. 'mauled' suggests that he is angry that he doesn't have the rights he should have.

4.2. Lots of possessions suggests permanence.

5. Bunkhouse

5.1. 'whitewashed' conveys that the identity of the person that lived there before has been washed away.

5.2. 'two shelves for the personal belongings of the occupant of the bunk' shows the temporariness of the itinerant workers.

5.3. Ranch is a microcosm of 1930s American values

5.3.1. negro

5.3.2. old

5.3.3. powerful

5.3.4. woman

5.3.5. disabled