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Part 1. Lennie promises to stay out of trouble. Part 3. As George goes deeper and deeper into detail about the imagined place, he gets lost Lennie continues focusing intensely on the fantasy of raising—and petting—as many rabbits as he wants. Both Lennie and George are so lost in their reverie that when Part 4. Lennie says that he is going to grow alfalfa for his rabbits when he and George have a farm of their own. Carlson is symbolic of people who are oblivious to the feelings of others, and who can only be concerned about something if it affects them personally.
Slim is symbolic of the archetype of the hero, king, or leader. He represents those few who, in their wisdom and strength, seem larger than life. George is symbolic of "the everyman" — the type of normal, average person who is found everywhere and whose feelings and actions are neither exceptional nor terrible. It is a safe sanctuary to meet and a place free from society, where Lennie and George can be themselves. What happens in the grove stays in the grove.
This is where the story is born and where the dream farm and Lennie meet their end. The bunkhouse represents the spot where conflict is most evident. Cruelty, violence, jealousy, and suspicion all arise here.
Here we see the most obvious manifestations of discrimination: name calling, isolation, fear, and the threat of death. The barn is representative of a supposedly safe place where animals can find shelter and warmth.
It is the thing that ties them together and keeps them working, even when times are hard. It is also their personal form of religion, with the re-telling of the dream serving as a form of litany or catechism. It is, ultimately, their version of heaven, so that when Lennie kills a human being, their chances of going there are forever ruined.
In addition, Lennie's loyalty to George is frequently described like that of a dog, especially a terrier. Steinbeck chose these images because they connote particular traits: unleashed power, conscience, and loyalty. In this way, it helps the reader understand Lennie and why he often acts instinctively.
Steinbeck is often described by critics as a believer in a "non-teleological world. It is chance, for instance, that Slim happens to be in the barn when Curley comes into the bunkhouse looking for his wife. It is also chance that George is absent from the barn when Lennie is burying his pup and Curley's wife comes in. Steinbeck tries to show that man cannot understand everything that happens, nor can he control the world around him.
For this reason, events often appear to be random. George's Solitaire game in the bunkhouse is exactly that.
It symbolizes the random appearance of events just as cards are drawn out at random from the deck. All is a matter of chance in Solitaire, and the same is true of the events in the book that Steinbeck thought about titling "Something That Happened.
The world is unpredictable, and in this setting, plans often "go awry. Hands are also used symbolically throughout the novel. The men on the ranch are called "hands," indicating that each has a job to do to make the ranch work as a whole. This takes away their humanity and individual personalities.
They are workers, not men. Lennie's hands, or paws, are symbols of trouble. Whenever he uses them — as he does on Curley — trouble ensues.
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