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* DirtyCoward: For all of his big attitude and pride in his boxer skills, if the other guy he was fighting could ''actually'' beat him in a fight, he'll count on the witnesses ganging up on the other guy simply because he's the bigger guy picking on the shorter "underdog". It's best shown that before his assault on Lennie, he was quickly intimidated by Slim who in turn, was frustrated on being constantly suspected by him being with his wife. He also has no problem beating Lennie up because he believes that Lennie is intimidated by him and probably wouldn't fight back, and the moment that Lennie manages to PunchCatch his right hand and starts to crush it unintentionally he quickly starts to become frightened, and in the 1992 film adaptation, screams for mercy.
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* DirtyCoward: For all of his big attitude and pride in his boxer skills, if the other guy he was fighting could challenge him and ''actually'' beat him in a fight, he'll count on the witnesses ganging up on the other guy simply because he's the bigger "bigger guy picking on the shorter "underdog". It's best underdog". In the story itself, this form cowardice is shown that right before his assault on Lennie, as he was quickly intimidated by Slim who in turn, was frustrated on being constantly suspected by him of being with his wife.wife and refusing to "bend over backward" to his intimidation. He also has no problem beating Lennie up because he believes that Lennie is intimidated by him and probably wouldn't fight back, and the moment that Lennie manages to PunchCatch his right hand and starts to crush it unintentionally he quickly starts to become frightened, and in the 1992 film adaptation, screams for mercy.
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* MortonsFork: Slim blackmails Curley with this dilemma. Either live with a crushed hand and emasculated ego or they'll tell everyone how he provoked a kind-hearted, mentally disabled, herculean simpleton into a brawl, lost, and then end his boxing career and reputation, in order to salvage the remains of his dignity and masculinity.
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* MortonsFork: Slim blackmails Curley with this dilemma. Either live with a crushed hand and emasculated ego or they'll tell everyone how he provoked a kind-hearted, mentally disabled, herculean simpleton into a brawl, lost, and lost in the said brawl with CareerEndingInjury, which then end ends his boxing career and reputation, in order to salvage the remains of his dignity and masculinity.
* RealityEnsues: He may be seen as the underdog because of his height, leading to his bigger opponents losing no matter what but when he tries to pick a fight with a kind, but clinically dumb {{Manchild}} while being known as an asshole who constantly throws his weight around, nobody sympathizes with him for being potentially crippled by Lennie and everyone instead sympathizes with the latter as the victim.
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* UnderdogsNeverLose: {{Deconstructed|Trope}}. Because of his shorter height, people will always sympathize with him for being a brave underdog going against the bigger bully in the ring. As Candy and Slim put it, even if his opponent was able to beat him in the ring, there's no true victory for them as they'll be ostracized for actually beating up a shorter guy, [[PlayingTheVictimCard which is something that Curley himself takes advantage of]]. Too bad for him when he ends up losing against the larger, dumber, but kinder Lennie Smalls and gets treated with NoSympathy because he was that much of an asshole, to begin with.
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* GoodIsNotSoft: He's one of the nicest guys in the setting that takes place in the Great Depression, but he's no pushover with [[{{Jerkass}} Curley]] ''himself'' being intimidated when trying to get up in his face.
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* ZeroPercentApprovalRating: Because of his detestable personality, very few characters like him. Even his own girlfriend is cheating on him, which shouldn't be a surprise.
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* ZeroPercentApprovalRating: Because of his detestable personality, very few characters like him. Even his own girlfriend wife is cheating on him, which shouldn't be a surprise.
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* CrazyJealousGuy: If he finds anyone on the farm (with the exception of his father) interacting with his wife, whether they talk to her or not, that guy will immediately be on his bad side. In an exclusive scene from the 1992 film adaptation; he subtly threatens George by describing the last guy he caught talking with his wife who has also stated that he was "minding his own business" was [[NoHoldsBarredBeatdown brutally beaten]] by his hands and was immediately fired.
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* CrazyJealousGuy: If Although his marriage with his wife is practically lifeless, he finds is extremely possessive of her to the point that if he caught anyone on the farm (with the exception of his father) interacting with his wife, whether they talk to her or not, that guy will immediately be on his bad side.he'll really give them hell. In an exclusive scene from the 1992 film adaptation; he subtly threatens George by describing the last guy he caught talking with his wife who has also stated that he was "minding his own business" was [[NoHoldsBarredBeatdown brutally beaten]] by his hands and was immediately fired.
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* DirtyCoward: For all of his big attitude and pride in his boxer skills, if the other guy he was fighting could ''actually'' beat him in a fight, he'll count on the witnesses ganging up on the other guy simply because he's the bigger guy picking on the shorter "underdog".
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* DirtyCoward: For all of his big attitude and pride in his boxer skills, if the other guy he was fighting could ''actually'' beat him in a fight, he'll count on the witnesses ganging up on the other guy simply because he's the bigger guy picking on the shorter "underdog". It's best shown that before his assault on Lennie, he was quickly intimidated by Slim who in turn, was frustrated on being constantly suspected by him being with his wife. He also has no problem beating Lennie up because he believes that Lennie is intimidated by him and probably wouldn't fight back, and the moment that Lennie manages to PunchCatch his right hand and starts to crush it unintentionally he quickly starts to become frightened, and in the 1992 film adaptation, screams for mercy.
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An intellectually disabled person who means well, is particularly strong (perhaps too strong) and loves to tend to soft things, especially living ones. His stupidity often puts him and George in hot water.
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An intellectually disabled person who means well, well is particularly strong (perhaps too strong) and loves to tend to soft things, especially living ones. His stupidity often puts him and George in hot water.
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* MentalHandicapMoralDeficiency: Defied, Lennie is generally harmless and lacks the ability to be fully aware of the consequences of his actions. He unwittingly kills animals, he accidentally portrayed himself as a rapist by grabbing a woman's dress (he did this to only feel how soft it is), and he only broke Curley's hand in self-defence and at George's command. [[spoiler: After accidentally killing Curley's wife; Curley took advantage of the situation to rally a lynch mob against Lennie for breaking his hand, not because Lennie murdered his wife. George only kills him, in the end, to save him from Curley's lynch mob and to save from being abused by the criminal justice system.]]
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* IronicName: As Carlson humorously points out, Lennie is quite tall for someone with ''Small'' as a last name.
* MentalHandicapMoralDeficiency: Defied, Lennie is generally harmless and lacks the ability to be fully aware of the consequences of his actions. He unwittingly kills animals, he accidentally portrayed himself as a rapist by grabbing a woman's dress (he did this to only feel how soft it is), and he only broke Curley's hand inself-defence self-defense and at George's command. [[spoiler: After accidentally killing Curley's wife; Curley took advantage of the situation to rally a lynch mob against Lennie for breaking his hand, not because Lennie murdered his wife. George only kills him, in the end, to save him from Curley's lynch mob and to save from being abused by the criminal justice system.]]
* MentalHandicapMoralDeficiency: Defied, Lennie is generally harmless and lacks the ability to be fully aware of the consequences of his actions. He unwittingly kills animals, he accidentally portrayed himself as a rapist by grabbing a woman's dress (he did this to only feel how soft it is), and he only broke Curley's hand in
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* TemptingFate: Right at the end while Curley is looking to kill him, Lennie and George reunite in the same forest they were in where they promised to meet if things go badly (again). Lennie asks George, "Ain't you gonna give me hell?"
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* TemptingFate: Right at the end end, while Curley is looking to kill him, Lennie and George reunite in the same forest they were in where they promised to meet if things go badly (again). Lennie asks George, "Ain't you gonna give me hell?"
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A short-tempered and rather short man who is the ranch owner's son.
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A short-tempered and rather short man with an equally short-temper, who is also the ranch owner's son.
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* AssholeVictim: Curley gets his hand broken by Lennie after he tries to assert dominance over him and the bunkhouse. Everyone was clearly on Lennie's side since he had no interest or desire in fighting Curley, they were also more astounded by the act than sympathetic to Curley. Slim quickly blackmails Curley to lie about the source of his injury by threatening to tell everyone about how he broke his hand in a fight he started against a simpleton with herculean strength. Curley's wife had no sympathy for him either and reveled in finding out about the fight.
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* AssholeVictim: Curley gets his hand broken by Lennie after he tries to assert dominance over him and in the bunkhouse. Everyone was clearly on Lennie's side since he had no interest or desire in fighting Curley, they were also more astounded by the act than sympathetic to Curley. Slim quickly blackmails Curley to lie about the source of his injury by threatening to tell everyone about how he broke his hand in a fight he started against a simpleton with herculean strength. Curley's wife had no sympathy for him either and reveled in finding out about the fight.
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* CrusadingWidower: Subverted, his planning to lynch Lennie comes more from still being sore about the latter breaking his hand in a fight than [[spoiler:avenging his wife]].
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* CrazyJealousGuy: If he finds anyone on the farm (with the exception of his father) interacting with his wife, whether they talk to her or not, that guy will immediately be on his bad side. In an exclusive scene from the 1992 film adaptation; he subtly threatens George by describing the last guy he caught talking with his wife who has also stated that he was "minding his own business" was [[NoHoldsBarredBeatdown brutally beaten]] by his hands and was immediately fired.
* CrusadingWidower: Subverted, his planning to lynch Lennie comes more from still being sore about the latter breaking his hand in a fight than [[spoiler:avenging hiswife]]. wife]].
* DirtyCoward: For all of his big attitude and pride in his boxer skills, if the other guy he was fighting could ''actually'' beat him in a fight, he'll count on the witnesses ganging up on the other guy simply because he's the bigger guy picking on the shorter "underdog".
* CrusadingWidower: Subverted, his planning to lynch Lennie comes more from still being sore about the latter breaking his hand in a fight than [[spoiler:avenging his
* DirtyCoward: For all of his big attitude and pride in his boxer skills, if the other guy he was fighting could ''actually'' beat him in a fight, he'll count on the witnesses ganging up on the other guy simply because he's the bigger guy picking on the shorter "underdog".
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* EstablishingCharacterMoment:
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* EstablishingCharacterMoment:EstablishingCharacterMoment: When he's first introduced to the protagonists, he specifically wants to hear Lennie respond to his question of asking them if they're the new workers, and then gets ''right up in his face'' while stating he should respond better next time in a low threatening tone. This moment should already give the reader a tell-tale sign that Curley is bad news.
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* HairTriggerTemper: It doesn't take much to rile Curly up into a brawl, and he immediately starts to pounding into Lennie when he "thought" that Lennie was laughing at him nevermind that he believes that Lennie was intimidated by him in their first meeting and was already in a bad mood, to begin with.
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* HairTriggerTemper: It doesn't take much to rile Curly Curley up into a brawl, and he immediately starts to pounding into Lennie when he "thought" that Lennie was laughing at him nevermind that he believes that Lennie was intimidated by him in their first meeting and was already in a bad mood, to begin with.
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* NeverMyFault: The fact that he wants to kill Lennie upon finding his dead wife as an excuse to really get back at him for breaking his hand leads him into ignoring the fact that it was mostly his ''own'' fault for attacking Lennie in the first place despite knowing how strong he was on the job, and even if he wanted to avenge his wife, Curly also ignores how his own poor treatment of her might've played a factor in her death as well.
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* NeverMyFault: The fact that he wants to kill Lennie upon finding his dead wife as an excuse to really get back at him for breaking his hand leads him into ignoring the fact that it was mostly his ''own'' fault for attacking Lennie in the first place despite knowing how strong he was on the job, and even if he wanted to avenge his wife, Curly Curley also ignores how his own poor treatment of her might've played a factor in her death as well.
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* PlayingTheVictimCard: According to Slim, one reason Curly picks fights is to exploit people's sympathy. Because he's a trained boxer he often beats guys bigger than him, but if he picks a fight and loses, there's no glory in it for his opponent, and the guy who beat him often gets ostracized for beating up a small guy like Curley. Ultimately subverted when Curley picks a fight with Lennie. Lennie is a childlike GentleGiant with no stomach for fighting, and when he crushes Curley's hand it's in self-defense, and only because George told him to. Although Curley comes out of the fight physically disabled, possibly permanently, the sympathy of the workers rests solely with Lennie.
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* PlayingTheVictimCard: According to Slim, one reason Curly Curley picks fights is to exploit people's sympathy. Because he's a trained boxer he often beats guys bigger than him, but if he picks a fight and loses, there's no glory in it for his opponent, and the guy who beat him often gets ostracized for beating up a small guy like Curley. Ultimately subverted when Curley picks a fight with Lennie. Lennie is a childlike GentleGiant with no stomach for fighting, and when he crushes Curley's hand it's in self-defense, and only because George told him to. Although Curley comes out of the fight physically disabled, possibly permanently, the sympathy of the workers rests solely with Lennie.
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* RevengeBeforeReason: He tries to beat up Lennie for laughing at him but fails to remember Lennie's reputation for being the strongest man on the ranch, despite his childlike intelligence. Later on, he wants to painfully kill Lennie for killing his wife; but it's really to get back at Lennie for crippling his hand as he and his wife weren't close, to begin with, and he really didn't take the time to mourn her upon finding her body and quickly start the manhunt, ignoring the fact that Lennie obviously didn't intentionally kill his wife and it was more accidental than anything and that ''he'' was the one who attacked Lennie first and getting his hand broken was much of his own fault than Lennie's.
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* RevengeBeforeReason: He tries to beat up Lennie for laughing at him but fails to remember Lennie's reputation for being the strongest man on the ranch, despite his childlike intelligence. Later on, he wants to painfully kill Lennie for killing his wife; but it's really to get back at Lennie for crippling his hand as he and his wife weren't close, to begin with, and he really didn't take the time to mourn her upon finding her body and quickly start the manhunt, ignoring the fact that Lennie obviously didn't intentionally kill his wife and it was more accidental than anything and that ''he'' was the one who attacked Lennie first and getting his hand broken was much more of his own fault than Lennie's.
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* KneelBeforeFrodo: The narration gives him a theme of royalty, using similes to portray how the ranchers have more respect and admiration for him than Curly, the boss's son.
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* KneelBeforeFrodo: The narration gives him a theme of royalty, using similes to portray how the ranchers have more respect and admiration for him than Curly, Curley, the boss's son.
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A mean farm worker
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A mean farm workerrotund man who's a rough, but well-meaning farmworker.
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* {{Foreshadowing}}: How she dies near the end. George mentions to Slim at one point that the reason why they came to work on the ranch, to begin with, is due to Lennie wanting to "feel the dress" worn by a woman during their last job, leading her to scream when she notices him which also caused Lennie to clutched onto her dress from being startled so suddenly, ''leading'' her to cry rape to the authorities and forcing George and Lennie to escape the area. It becomes a bigger foreshadowing in the 1992 film showing the color of the woman's dress being ''red'', the same color that Curly's wife is worn.
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* {{Foreshadowing}}: How she dies near the end. George mentions to Slim at one point that the reason why they came to work on the ranch, to begin with, is due to Lennie wanting to "feel the dress" worn by a woman during their last job, leading her to scream when she notices him which also caused Lennie to clutched onto her dress from being startled so suddenly, ''leading'' her to cry rape to the authorities and forcing George and Lennie to escape the area. It becomes a bigger foreshadowing in the 1992 film showing the color of the woman's dress being ''red'', the same color that Curly's Curley's wife is worn.
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* AssholeVictim: Curley gets his hand broken by Lennie after he tries to assert dominance over him and the bunkhouse. Everyone was clearly on Lennie's side since he had no interest or desire in fighting Curley, they were also more astounded by the act than sympathetic to Curley. Slim quickly blackmails Curley to lie about the source of his injury by threatening to tell everyone about how he broke his hand in a fight he started against a simpleton with herculean strength. Curley's wife had no sympathy for him either and revelled in finding out about the fight.
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* AssholeVictim: Curley gets his hand broken by Lennie after he tries to assert dominance over him and the bunkhouse. Everyone was clearly on Lennie's side since he had no interest or desire in fighting Curley, they were also more astounded by the act than sympathetic to Curley. Slim quickly blackmails Curley to lie about the source of his injury by threatening to tell everyone about how he broke his hand in a fight he started against a simpleton with herculean strength. Curley's wife had no sympathy for him either and revelled reveled in finding out about the fight.
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* BodyMotifs: Curley has a hand motif: His glove full of Vaseline, his status as a prized fighter, and how he's emasculated after his hand gets broken by Lennie.
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* BodyMotifs: Curley has a hand motif: His glove full of Vaseline, his status as a prized fighter, prizefighter, and how he's emasculated after his hand gets broken by Lennie.
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* BullyingADragon: He tried this three times. He tried to pick on Slim and gets intimidated into submission. He does this to Carlson and gets laughed at. Then he turns on Lennie...and, well, we see how that went.
* ConspicuousGloves: He wears a glove full of Vaseline on one hand, supposedly because he's keeping that hand soft for his wife. This has no plot-relevant reason, but does make the theatrical adaptation easier to stage when his hand gets crushed.
* CrusadingWidower: Subverted, his planning to lynch Lennie comes more from still being sore about the latter breaking his hand in fight than [[spoiler:avenging his wife]].
* DomesticAbuser: Implied, however, while he isn't mentioned to hit or yell at her, he does isolate his Wife.
* ConspicuousGloves: He wears a glove full of Vaseline on one hand, supposedly because he's keeping that hand soft for his wife. This has no plot-relevant reason, but does make the theatrical adaptation easier to stage when his hand gets crushed.
* CrusadingWidower: Subverted, his planning to lynch Lennie comes more from still being sore about the latter breaking his hand in fight than [[spoiler:avenging his wife]].
* DomesticAbuser: Implied, however, while he isn't mentioned to hit or yell at her, he does isolate his Wife.
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* BullyingADragon: He tried this three times. He tried to pick on Slim and gets get intimidated into submission. He does this to Carlson and gets laughed at. Then he turns on Lennie...and, well, we see how that went.
* ConspicuousGloves: He wears a glove full of Vaseline on one hand, supposedly because he's keeping that hand soft for his wife. This has no plot-relevantreason, reason but does make the theatrical adaptation easier to stage when his hand gets crushed.
* CrusadingWidower: Subverted, his planning to lynch Lennie comes more from still being sore about the latter breaking his hand in a fight than [[spoiler:avenging his wife]].
* DomesticAbuser: Implied, however, while he isn't mentioned to hit or yell at her, he does isolate hisWife. Wife.
* EstablishingCharacterMoment:
* ConspicuousGloves: He wears a glove full of Vaseline on one hand, supposedly because he's keeping that hand soft for his wife. This has no plot-relevant
* CrusadingWidower: Subverted, his planning to lynch Lennie comes more from still being sore about the latter breaking his hand in a fight than [[spoiler:avenging his wife]].
* DomesticAbuser: Implied, however, while he isn't mentioned to hit or yell at her, he does isolate his
* EstablishingCharacterMoment:
* HairTriggerTemper: It doesn't take much to rile Curly up into a brawl, and he immediately starts to pounding into Lennie when he "thought" that Lennie was laughing at him nevermind that he believes that Lennie was intimidated by him in their first meeting and was already in a bad mood, to begin with.
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* MortonsFork: Slim blackmails Curley with this dilemma. Either live with a crushed hand and emasculated ego or they'll tell everyone how he provoked a kind-hearted, mentally disabled, herculean simpleton into a brawl, lost, an then got him and his carer fired, in order to salvage the remains of his dignity and masculinity.
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* MortonsFork: Slim blackmails Curley with this dilemma. Either live with a crushed hand and emasculated ego or they'll tell everyone how he provoked a kind-hearted, mentally disabled, herculean simpleton into a brawl, lost, an and then got him end his boxing career and his carer fired, reputation, in order to salvage the remains of his dignity and masculinity.masculinity.
* NeverMyFault: The fact that he wants to kill Lennie upon finding his dead wife as an excuse to really get back at him for breaking his hand leads him into ignoring the fact that it was mostly his ''own'' fault for attacking Lennie in the first place despite knowing how strong he was on the job, and even if he wanted to avenge his wife, Curly also ignores how his own poor treatment of her might've played a factor in her death as well.
* NeverMyFault: The fact that he wants to kill Lennie upon finding his dead wife as an excuse to really get back at him for breaking his hand leads him into ignoring the fact that it was mostly his ''own'' fault for attacking Lennie in the first place despite knowing how strong he was on the job, and even if he wanted to avenge his wife, Curly also ignores how his own poor treatment of her might've played a factor in her death as well.
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* RevengeBeforeReason: He tries to beat up Lennie for laughing at him but fails to remember Lennie's reputation for being the strongest man on ranch, despite his childlike intelligence.
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* RevengeBeforeReason: He tries to beat up Lennie for laughing at him but fails to remember Lennie's reputation for being the strongest man on the ranch, despite his childlike intelligence.intelligence. Later on, he wants to painfully kill Lennie for killing his wife; but it's really to get back at Lennie for crippling his hand as he and his wife weren't close, to begin with, and he really didn't take the time to mourn her upon finding her body and quickly start the manhunt, ignoring the fact that Lennie obviously didn't intentionally kill his wife and it was more accidental than anything and that ''he'' was the one who attacked Lennie first and getting his hand broken was much of his own fault than Lennie's.
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An elderly farm worker with one hand
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An elderly farm worker farmworker with one hand
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* YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness: A non-lethal or villanous version. He worries about his place on the farm or any farm because he's elderly and only has one hand.
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* YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness: A non-lethal or villanous villainous version. He worries about his place on the farm or any farm because he's elderly and only has one hand.
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One of the more experienced farm workers. The narration dubs him the "prince of the farm"
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One of the more experienced farm workers.farmworkers. The narration dubs him the "prince of the farm"
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* TheAce: He's handsome, fair-minded, hard-working, loyal, reasonable and just all around a nice guy. Even when Lennie accidentally murders Curley's wife, he agrees that Lennie doesn't really deserve to die for it — or, at least not die the sort of death Curley will give him.
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* TheAce: He's handsome, fair-minded, hard-working, loyal, reasonable reasonable, and just all around all-around a nice guy. Even when Lennie accidentally murders Curley's wife, he agrees that Lennie doesn't really deserve to die for it — or, at least not die the sort of death Curley will give him.
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* ForgottenFallenFriend: Curley used her death to get murderous revenge on Lennie for breaking his hand. Their marriage was lifeless and Curley didn't take too long to assume the role as a CrusadingWidower.
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* ForgottenFallenFriend: Curley used her death to get murderous revenge on Lennie for breaking his hand. Their marriage was lifeless and Curley didn't take too long to assume the role as of a CrusadingWidower.CrusadingWidower.
* {{Foreshadowing}}: How she dies near the end. George mentions to Slim at one point that the reason why they came to work on the ranch, to begin with, is due to Lennie wanting to "feel the dress" worn by a woman during their last job, leading her to scream when she notices him which also caused Lennie to clutched onto her dress from being startled so suddenly, ''leading'' her to cry rape to the authorities and forcing George and Lennie to escape the area. It becomes a bigger foreshadowing in the 1992 film showing the color of the woman's dress being ''red'', the same color that Curly's wife is worn.
* {{Foreshadowing}}: How she dies near the end. George mentions to Slim at one point that the reason why they came to work on the ranch, to begin with, is due to Lennie wanting to "feel the dress" worn by a woman during their last job, leading her to scream when she notices him which also caused Lennie to clutched onto her dress from being startled so suddenly, ''leading'' her to cry rape to the authorities and forcing George and Lennie to escape the area. It becomes a bigger foreshadowing in the 1992 film showing the color of the woman's dress being ''red'', the same color that Curly's wife is worn.
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* KickTheDog: In Chapter 4, she calls out Candy for his old age and threatens to lynch Crooks, which kills all the good feeling they were having before.
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* KickTheDog: In Chapter 4, she calls out Candy for his old age and threatens to lynch Crooks, which kills all the good feeling feelings they were having before.before.
* PetTheDog: She was nothing less but kind and courteous to Lennie in their interactions, that is, until she let him stroke her hair.
* PetTheDog: She was nothing less but kind and courteous to Lennie in their interactions, that is, until she let him stroke her hair.
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* NamedByTheAdaptation: In one of the film adaptations, she's called "Mae"
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* NamedByTheAdaptation: In one of the film adaptations, she's called "Mae""Mae."
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* TheVamp: However, she's a played with case. On one hand, she does flirt with the men on the farm but it's mostly so she can have someone to talk to and, other than a couple of KickTheDog moments, she's not evil or anything but, on the other end, the other men on the farm don't want anything to do with her for a reason.
* YourCheatingHeart: Supposedly. Curley suspects the reason she's seldom around and difficult to find is because she's going around having sex with other men. So far, we've only seen her flirt with the other men and, if she did cheat on her husband, we don't hear about it.
* YourCheatingHeart: Supposedly. Curley suspects the reason she's seldom around and difficult to find is because she's going around having sex with other men. So far, we've only seen her flirt with the other men and, if she did cheat on her husband, we don't hear about it.
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* TheVamp: However, she's a played with case.Played with. On one hand, she does flirt with the men on the farm but it's mostly so she can have someone to talk to and, other than a couple of KickTheDog moments, she's not evil or anything but, on the other end, the other men on the farm don't want anything to do with her for a reason.
* YourCheatingHeart: Supposedly. Curley suspects the reason she's seldom around and difficult to find isbecause that she's going around having sex with other men. So far, we've only seen her flirt with the other men and, if she did cheat on her husband, we don't hear about it.
* YourCheatingHeart: Supposedly. Curley suspects the reason she's seldom around and difficult to find is
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A black farm worker, who keeps to himself
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A black farm worker, who keeps to himselfhimself.
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* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: He takes a great deal of joy in picking on Lennie. And then he's put on the receiving end of it by Curley's Wife who threatens to have him lynched. However, he seems like for the most part a normal, well-meaning, reasonable person.
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* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: He takes a great deal of joy in picking on Lennie. And then he's put on the receiving end of it by Curley's Wife who threatens to have him lynched. However, he seems to like for the most part a normal, well-meaning, reasonable person.
* TokenMinority: The only (mentioned) African American who works on the farm.
* TokenMinority: The only (mentioned) African American who works on the farm.
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* OOCIsSeriousBusiness: She's mentioned to be a very kind old who raised Lenny despite his mental disability, but she acts uncharacteristically stern and scolding to Lennie near the end of the book. It's justified, however, as she was never ''physically'' there and it was just a vision of Lennie that personifies his guilt for burdening George.
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* JerkassHasAPoint: Though he didn't go about it in the nicest or sympathetic way, he did have a point that putting down Candy's dog is the most reasonable thing to do, as the dog was elderly and toothless.
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* JerkassHasAPoint: Though he didn't go about it in the nicest or sympathetic way, he did have a point that putting down Candy's dog is the most reasonable thing to do, as the dog was elderly and toothless. Later on, Candy agrees that the dog needed to be put down but says that Carlson shouldn't have been the one to pull the trigger.
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* MentalHandicapMoralDeficiency: Defied, Lennie is generally harmless and lacks the ability to be fully aware of the consequences of his actions. He unwittingly kills animals, he accidentally portrayed himself as a rapist by grabbing a woman's dress to only feel how soft it is and only broke Curley's hand in self-defence and at George's command. [[spoiler: After accidentally killing Curley's wife; Curley takes advantage of the situation to rally a lynch mob against Lennie for breaking his hand, not because Lennie murdered his wife.]]
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* MentalHandicapMoralDeficiency: Defied, Lennie is generally harmless and lacks the ability to be fully aware of the consequences of his actions. He unwittingly kills animals, he accidentally portrayed himself as a rapist by grabbing a woman's dress (he did this to only feel how soft it is is), and he only broke Curley's hand in self-defence and at George's command. [[spoiler: After accidentally killing Curley's wife; Curley takes took advantage of the situation to rally a lynch mob against Lennie for breaking his hand, not because Lennie murdered his wife.wife. George only kills him, in the end, to save him from Curley's lynch mob and to save from being abused by the criminal justice system.]]
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* MentalHandicapMoralDeficiency: Defied, Lennie is generally harmless and lacks the ability to be fully aware of the consequences of his actions. He unwittingly kills animals, he accidentally portrayed himself as a rapist by grabbing a woman's dress to only feel how soft it is and only broke Curley's hand in self-defence and at George's command. [[spoiler: After accidentally killing Curley's wife; Curley takes advantage of the situation to rally a lynch mob against Lennie for breaking his hand, not because Lennie murdered his wife.]]
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* ZeroPercentApprovalRating: Because of his detestable personality, very few characters like him. Even his own girlfriend is cheating on him, which shouldn't be a surprise.
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* HateSink: If you have already read all the other tropes describing this guy, it should be pretty obvious that he is ''not'' meant to be a likable character in the slightest.
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* YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness: A non-lethal or villanous version. He worries about his place on the farm or any farm because he's elderly and only has one hand.
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* YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness: A non-lethal or villanous version. He worries about his place on the farm or any farm because he's elderly and only has one hand.
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* NiceGuy: He's a really nice guy and a lot of what he does is because he doesn't know any better, not out of malice.
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* NiceGuy: He's a really nice guy and a lot of what he does is because he doesn't know (or understand) any better, not out of malice.
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* AdaptationalNiceGirl: She is far more sympathetic in the 1992 film. For example, the scene where she threatens to have Crooks lynched is omitted.
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* AdaptationalNiceGirl: AdaptationalNiceGuy: She is far more sympathetic in the 1992 film. For example, the scene where she threatens to have Crooks lynched is omitted.
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* ParentalSubstitute: We don't know about what happened to Lennie's parents but we do know she's taken care of him since he was a baby until she passed away
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*ChronicPetKiller: Not her, certainly, but her nephew, Lennie, is and this trope is why she stopped giving him mice. She did give him a rubber mouse, which he wanted nothing to do with (it was "no good to pet")
*ParentalSubstitute: {{Nephewism}}: We don't know about what happened to Lennie's parents but we do know she's taken care of him since he was a baby until she passed awayaway.
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* NiceGuy: He's a really nice guy and lot of what he does is because he doesn't know any better, not out of malice.
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* NiceGuy: He's a really nice guy and a lot of what he does is because he doesn't know any better, not out of malice.malice.
* RuleOfSymbolism: Steinbeck uses animal similes to show how different Lennie is to other human beings and how unique he is compared to the other characters.
* RuleOfSymbolism: Steinbeck uses animal similes to show how different Lennie is to other human beings and how unique he is compared to the other characters.
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* AssholeVictim: He gets his hand broken by Lennie after he tries to assert dominance over him and the bunkhouse. Everyone was clearly on the latter's side since Lennie had no interest or desire in fighting him. Slim quickly blackmails Curley to lie about the source of his injury by threatening to tell everyone about how he broke his hand in fight he started against a herculean, towering simpleton. Curley's wife had no sympathy for him either.
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* AssholeVictim: He Curley gets his hand broken by Lennie after he tries to assert dominance over him and the bunkhouse. Everyone was clearly on the latter's Lennie's side since Lennie he had no interest or desire in fighting him. Curley, they were also more astounded by the act than sympathetic to Curley. Slim quickly blackmails Curley to lie about the source of his injury by threatening to tell everyone about how he broke his hand in a fight he started against a herculean, towering simpleton. simpleton with herculean strength. Curley's wife had no sympathy for him either.either and revelled in finding out about the fight.
* BodyMotifs: Curley has a hand motif: His glove full of Vaseline, his status as a prized fighter, and how he's emasculated after his hand gets broken by Lennie.
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* KneelBeforeFrodo: The narration regards him as royalty and it signifies how the other farm workers have more respect for him than for Curley.
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* KneelBeforeFrodo: The narration regards gives him as royalty and it signifies a theme of royalty, using similes to portray how the other farm workers ranchers have more respect and admiration for him than for Curley.
Curly, the boss's son.
* EveryoneHasStandards: He selfishly pressured Candy into euthanizing his dog for being too old and smelly. When Curley starts beating up Lennie, Carlson jumps to Lennie's aid and agrees to keep quiet about the actual source of Curley's injury.
* AttractivenessIsolation: With the central theme of loneliness to the story, Curley's Wife's loneliness is a result of her beauty. She admits she married Curley for the wrong reasons and that she only did it to spite her mother for denying her chance at fame. She only wants someone to talk to but everyone else is just so afraid of Curley's reaction that they consider her "jailbait" because they see her as more trouble than she's worth. Her name is also a reflection of this, she was objectified for her beauty and men are too scared of Curley to even talk to her.
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* ICouldaBeenAContender: She claims this during her MotiveRant to Lennie in chapter 5, claiming she could have gone away and become a star in Hollywood, but instead she's stuck out in the middle of nowhere as the bored and lonely TrophyWife of a strutting, arrogant rooster of a ranch-owner.
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* ICouldaBeenAContender: She claims this during her MotiveRant to Lennie in chapter 5, claiming she could have gone away and become a star in Hollywood, but instead she's stuck out in the middle of nowhere as the bored and lonely TrophyWife of a strutting, preening, arrogant rooster of a ranch-owner.
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* AdaptationalNiceGirl: She is far more sympathetic in the 1992 film. For example, the scene where she threatens to have Crooks lynched is omitted.
* AssholeVictim: She's not a nice person, not that she deserved to die.
* AssholeVictim: She's not a nice person, not that she deserved to die.
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*AttentionWhore: She's lonely but it's no doubt that a lot of what she does gets her attention. Unfortunately, when she does get attention, it's not the kind she'd like, as seen in the TooDumbToLive entry below.
* IJustWantToHaveFriends: Or, at least, someone to talk to. She only wants to talk to the workers but they avoid her because they don't want to have trouble with her fiery-tempered bully of a husband or getting accused of rape if they upset her.
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* IJustWantToHaveFriends: Or, at least, someone to talk to. She only wants to talk to the workers but they avoid her because they don't want to have trouble with her fiery-tempered bully of a husband or getting accused of rape if they upset her.
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* TheVamp: However, she's a played with case. On one hand, she does flirt with the men on the farm but it's mostly so she can have someone to talk to and, other than threatening to lynch Crooks, she's not evil or anything but, on the other end, the other men on the farm don't want anything to do with her for a reason.
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* TheVamp: However, she's a played with case. On one hand, she does flirt with the men on the farm but it's mostly so she can have someone to talk to and, other than threatening to lynch Crooks, a couple of KickTheDog moments, she's not evil or anything but, on the other end, the other men on the farm don't want anything to do with her for a reason.
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* NoNameGiven: She's not named, just called "Curley's Wife". According to Steinbeck on why she doesn't have a name, she's, quote, "not a person, but a symbol-a foil and a danger to Lennie." However, in one of the movie adaptations, she's called "Mae" in one scene.
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*LadyInRed: In the scene where she invites Lennie to pet her hair and dies, she's wearing a red dress with matching shoes.
*NamedByTheAdaptation: In one of the film adaptations, she's called "Mae"
* NoNameGiven: She's not named, just called "Curley's Wife". According to Steinbeck on why she doesn't have a name, she's, quote, "not a person, but a symbol-a foil and a danger to Lennie."However, in one of the movie adaptations, she's called "Mae" in one scene.
*NamedByTheAdaptation: In one of the film adaptations, she's called "Mae"
* NoNameGiven: She's not named, just called "Curley's Wife". According to Steinbeck on why she doesn't have a name, she's, quote, "not a person, but a symbol-a foil and a danger to Lennie."
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*TheVamp: However, she's a played with case. On one hand, she does flirt with the men on the farm but it's mostly so she can have someone to talk to and, other than threatening to lynch Crooks, she's not evil or anything but, on the other end, the other men on the farm don't want anything to do with her for a reason.
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--> "S'pose Curley jumps a big guy an' licks him. Ever'body says what a game guy Curley is. [[HeadsIWinTailsYouLose And s'pose he does the same thing and gets licked.]] Then ever'body says the big guy oughtta pick on somebody his own size, and maybe they gang up on the big guy."
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--> "S'pose Curley jumps a big guy an' licks him. Ever'body says what a game guy Curley is. [[HeadsIWinTailsYouLose [[MortonsFork And s'pose he does the same thing and gets licked.]] Then ever'body says the big guy oughtta pick on somebody his own size, and maybe they gang up on the big guy."
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** According to Slim, this is what getting in fights with Curley is like. Because he's a trained boxer he often beats guys bigger than him, but if he picks a fight and loses, there's no glory in it for his opponent, and the guy who beat him often gets ostracized for beating up a small guy like Curley.
** Ultimately ''subverted'' when Curley picks a fight with Lennie. Lennie is (technically) a childlike GentleGiant with no stomach for fighting, and when he crushes Curley's hand it's in self-defense, and only because George told him to. Although Curley comes out of the fight physically disabled, possibly permanently, the sympathy of the workers rests solely with Lennie.
** According to Slim, this is what getting in fights with Curley is like. Because he's a trained boxer he often beats guys bigger than him, but if he picks a fight and loses, there's no glory in it for his opponent, and the guy who beat him often gets ostracized for beating up a small guy like Curley.
** Ultimately ''subverted'' when Curley picks a fight with Lennie. Lennie is (technically) a childlike GentleGiant with no stomach for fighting, and when he crushes Curley's hand it's in self-defense, and only because George told him to. Although Curley comes out of the fight physically disabled, possibly permanently, the sympathy of the workers rests solely with Lennie.
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* MortonsFork: Slim blackmails Curley with this dilemma. Either live with a crushed hand and emasculated ego or they'll tell everyone how he provoked a kind-hearted, mentally disabled, herculean simpleton into a brawl and lost. Then got him and his carer fired, in order to salvage the remains of his dignity and masculinity.
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* MortonsFork: Slim blackmails Curley with this dilemma. Either live with a crushed hand and emasculated ego or they'll tell everyone how he provoked a kind-hearted, mentally disabled, herculean simpleton into a brawl and lost. Then brawl, lost, an then got him and his carer fired, in order to salvage the remains of his dignity and masculinity.
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* PlayingTheVictimCard: According to Slim, one reason Curly picks fights is to exploit people's sympathy. Because he's a trained boxer he often beats guys bigger than him, but if he picks a fight and loses, there's no glory in it for his opponent, and the guy who beat him often gets ostracized for beating up a small guy like Curley. Ultimately subverted when Curley picks a fight with Lennie. Lennie is a childlike GentleGiant with no stomach for fighting, and when he crushes Curley's hand it's in self-defense, and only because George told him to. Although Curley comes out of the fight physically disabled, possibly permanently, the sympathy of the workers rests solely with Lennie.
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* StayInTheKitchen: He expects his wife to always be inside their house. She doesn't listen, and supposedly spends as much time and distance out of the house or hides somewhere in the ranch that both the reader and Curley doesn't know about.
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* AnimalsHateHim: He has a crooked back because a horse kicked him before, and he never recovered from it.
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* PrinceCharmless: He's the boss' son and regularly uses his position to abuse the ranchers. Either goading them into fights or jealously abusing them for looking at his wife.
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* PrinceCharmless: He's the boss' boss's son and regularly uses his position to abuse the ranchers. Either goading them into fights or jealously abusing them for looking at his wife.
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* AssholeVictim: He gets his hand broken by Lennie after he tries to assert dominance over him and the bunkhouse. Everyone was clearly on the latter side since Lennie had no interest or desire in fighting him. Slim quickly blackmails Curley to lie about the source of his injury by threatening to tell everyone about how he broke his hand in fight he started against a herculean, towering simpleton. Curley's wife had no sympathy for him either.
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* AssholeVictim: He gets his hand broken by Lennie after he tries to assert dominance over him and the bunkhouse. Everyone was clearly on the latter latter's side since Lennie had no interest or desire in fighting him. Slim quickly blackmails Curley to lie about the source of his injury by threatening to tell everyone about how he broke his hand in fight he started against a herculean, towering simpleton. Curley's wife had no sympathy for him either.
* ItsAllAboutMe: [[spoiler: When he finds his dead wife, it's clear that he's using the situation to get revenge on Lennie for crippling him than for killing his wife.]]
* PrinceCharmless: He's the boss' son and regularly uses his position to abuse the ranchers. Either goading them into fights or jealously abusing them for looking at his wife.
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* ShootTheDog: Literally! Roughly midway through the story, Carlson bullies him into letting him shoot his worn-out old dog, simply because the former thinks the dog is too old and too smelly. He later agrees that it was necessary and says that he should have been the one pulling the trigger.
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* ShootTheDog: Literally! Roughly midway through the story, Carlson bullies him into letting him shoot his worn-out old dog, simply because the former thinks the dog is too old and too smelly. He later agrees that it was necessary and says but believes that he should have been the one pulling the trigger.
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* TheAce: He's handsome, fair-minded, hard-working, loyal, reasonable and just all around a nice guy. Even when Lennie accidentally murders Curley's wife, he agrees that Lennie doesn't really deserve to die for it — or, at least not die the sort of death Curley will give him
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* TheAce: He's handsome, fair-minded, hard-working, loyal, reasonable and just all around a nice guy. Even when Lennie accidentally murders Curley's wife, he agrees that Lennie doesn't really deserve to die for it — or, at least not die the sort of death Curley will give him
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* KneelBeforeFrodo: The narration regards him as royalty and it signifies how the other farm workers have more respect for him than for Curley.
* KneelBeforeFrodo: The narration regards him as royalty and it signifies how the other farm workers have more respect for him than for Curley.
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* JerkassHasAPoint: Though, he didn't go about it in the nicest or sympathetic way, he did have a point that putting down Candy's dog is the most reasonable thing to do, as the dog was elderly and toothless.
* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: He's prickly, gruff, and a bit mean but he's not wholly unlikable, as, somehow, he gets along with the other characters.
* NoSympathy: When he puts down Candy's dog, he's not all that sympathetic. His convincing Candy to let him euthanize the dog is really him bullying the latter into it, nor is he understanding towards Candy's feelings.
* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: He's prickly, gruff, and a bit mean but he's not wholly unlikable, as, somehow, he gets along with the other characters.
* NoSympathy: When he puts down Candy's dog, he's not all that sympathetic. His convincing Candy to let him euthanize the dog is really him bullying the latter into it, nor is he understanding towards Candy's feelings.
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characters. He also sides with Lennie when Curley goads him into a fight since Lennie didn't want to fight and was tearfully guilty about having to defend himself.
* NoSympathy: When he puts down Candy's dog, he's not all that sympathetic. His convincing Candy to let him euthanize the dog is really him bullying the latter into it, nor is he understanding towards Candy's feelings. \n [[spoiler: His final lines in the story is him failing to comprehend George's grief about having to kill his best friend.]]
* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: He's prickly, gruff, and a bit mean but he's not wholly unlikable, as, somehow, he gets along with the other
* NoSympathy: When he puts down Candy's dog, he's not all that sympathetic. His convincing Candy to let him euthanize the dog is really him bullying the latter into it, nor is he understanding towards Candy's feelings.
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* ChronicPetKiller: PlayedForDrama. He's this because he 1) doesn't really know or understand better and 2), is very strong. In one conversation with George,
* DoesNotKnowHisOwnStrength: He's a deconstruction of this. He means well but he doesn't know how to control his strength and is prone to holding on tight to things when he gets scared
* DumbMuscle: He's a deconstruction of this trope, with almost all the death in the book is caused by Lennie accidentally killing something, due to his strength, and not realizing this until it is too late.
* DoesNotKnowHisOwnStrength: He's a deconstruction of this. He means well but he doesn't know how to control his strength and is prone to holding on tight to things when he gets scared
* DumbMuscle: He's a deconstruction of this trope, with almost all the death in the book is caused by Lennie accidentally killing something, due to his strength, and not realizing this until it is too late.
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* ChronicPetKiller: PlayedForDrama. He's this because he 1) doesn't really know or understand better and 2), is very strong. In one conversation with George,
George, we find out his Aunt Clara stopped giving him mice because he kept killing them and, later, in the story, he plays with his new puppy a bit too hard, accidentally killing him.
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* DumbMuscle:He's While he's not "dumb" in the usual sense, he's a deconstruction of this trope, with almost all the death in the book is caused by Lennie accidentally killing something, due to his strength, and not realizing this until it is too late.
* DoesNotKnowHisOwnStrength: He's a deconstruction of this. He means well but he doesn't know how to control his strength and is prone to holding on tight to things when he gets
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* NiceGuy:A He's a really nice guy and lot of what he does is because he doesn't know any better, not out of malicemalice.
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* RevengeBeforeReason: He tries to beat up Lennie for laughing at him but fails to remember Lennie's reputation for being the strongest man on ranch despite his childlike intelligence.
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* PosthumuousCharacter: She's passed away before the story starts and the only time she makes an appearance is when Lennie sees a vision of her scolding him in his voice.
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* CantLiveWithThemCantLiveWithoutThem: As much trouble Lennie unintentionally causes for him, having Lennie around did make him feel special.
* TheCaretaker: George serves as this to Lennie; being smarter than him, George comes up with all the plans for getting money, tries to keep him out of trouble, "translates" for him to others, and generally does whatever it takes to keep him alive. PlayedForDrama in that, ultimately, the best thing George can do for Lennie is shoot him in the head.
* TheCaretaker: George serves as this to Lennie; being smarter than him, George comes up with all the plans for getting money, tries to keep him out of trouble, "translates" for him to others, and generally does whatever it takes to keep him alive. PlayedForDrama in that, ultimately, the best thing George can do for Lennie is shoot him in the head.
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* AmbiguousDisorder: The exact nature and name of Lennie's disability are unspecified. The important parts are that he's got the mental state of a child, likes to hold soft things, and he has strength beyond a regular man. Due to his child-like state, Lennie is unaware of what he's actually capable of and what damage he can do. Lennie has to rely on a carer to protect him from the outside world, as well as, reign him in when he gets agitated or scared. Some of this trope might be justified, as the setting is in the 30s.
* AndCallHimGeorge: He loves to pet things but animals don't last long with him. Earlier in the story, he had a mouse and, quote, "pinched it's head" so it'd stop biting him and we see how that went.
* BewareTheNiceOnes: As nice as a guy he can be, he's also very strong so getting him upset wouldn't be anyone's best interest.
* ChronicPetKiller: PlayedForDrama. He's this because he 1) doesn't really know or understand better and 2), is very strong. In one conversation with George,
* AndCallHimGeorge: He loves to pet things but animals don't last long with him. Earlier in the story, he had a mouse and, quote, "pinched it's head" so it'd stop biting him and we see how that went.
* BewareTheNiceOnes: As nice as a guy he can be, he's also very strong so getting him upset wouldn't be anyone's best interest.
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* DomesticAbuser: Implied, however, while he isn't mentioned to hit or yell at her, he does isolate his Wife.
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* JerkassHasAPoint: Though, he didn't go about it in the nicest or sympathetic way, he did have a point that putting down Candy's dog is the most reasonable thing to do, as the dog was elderly and toothless.
* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: He's prickly, gruff, and a bit mean but he's not wholly unlikable, as, somehow, he gets along with the other characters.
* NoSympathy: When he puts down Candy's dog, he's not all that sympathetic. His convincing Candy to let him euthanize the dog is really him bullying the latter into it, nor is he understanding towards Candy's feelings.
* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: He's prickly, gruff, and a bit mean but he's not wholly unlikable, as, somehow, he gets along with the other characters.
* NoSympathy: When he puts down Candy's dog, he's not all that sympathetic. His convincing Candy to let him euthanize the dog is really him bullying the latter into it, nor is he understanding towards Candy's feelings.
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* AccidentalMurder: How she dies. At the climax of the book in chapter 5, Lennie kills her. He didn't ''mean'' to, he was just trying to stop her from screaming and getting him into trouble, which is lampshaded when George finds the body and talks to Candy and Slim.
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* IJustWantToHaveFriends: Or, at least, someone to talk to. She only wants to talk to the workers but they avoid her because they don't want to have trouble with her fiery-tempered bully of a husband or getting accused of rape if they upset her.
* NoNameGiven: She's not named, just called "Curley's Wife". According to Steinbeck on why she doesn't have a name, she's, quote, "not a person, but a symbol-a foil and a danger to Lennie."
* TooDumbToLive: She's seen firsthand that Lennie is a simple-minded but powerful fool who was capable of ''crushing her husband's hand'', and that he has problems controlling his strength because he's dumb -- after all, he'd just killed his new puppy by accident when she came in. Yet she's still stupid enough to invite Lennie to start stroking her hair, and then panics when he won't stop. When he grabs her and tells her to stop screaming, she keeps on screaming, and he ends up accidentally breaking her neck in trying to make her stop.
* TrophyWife: It's rather obvious Curley married her more because of appearances (she's described as lovely) than love.
* NoNameGiven: She's not named, just called "Curley's Wife". According to Steinbeck on why she doesn't have a name, she's, quote, "not a person, but a symbol-a foil and a danger to Lennie."
* TooDumbToLive: She's seen firsthand that Lennie is a simple-minded but powerful fool who was capable of ''crushing her husband's hand'', and that he has problems controlling his strength because he's dumb -- after all, he'd just killed his new puppy by accident when she came in. Yet she's still stupid enough to invite Lennie to start stroking her hair, and then panics when he won't stop. When he grabs her and tells her to stop screaming, she keeps on screaming, and he ends up accidentally breaking her neck in trying to make her stop.
* TrophyWife: It's rather obvious Curley married her more because of appearances (she's described as lovely) than love.
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* IJustWantToHaveFriends: He would like to have friends but because of his skin color and being the only (mentioned) black worker on the farm, he's isolated and masks this with grumpiness.
* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: He takes a great deal of joy in picking on Lennie. And then he's put on the receiving end of it by Curley's Wife who threatens to have him lynched. However, he seems like for the most part a normal, well-meaning, reasonable person.
* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: He takes a great deal of joy in picking on Lennie. And then he's put on the receiving end of it by Curley's Wife who threatens to have him lynched. However, he seems like for the most part a normal, well-meaning, reasonable person.
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* ParentalSubstitute: We don't know about what happened to Lennie's parents but we do know she's taken care of him since he was a baby until she passed away
* PosthumuousCharacter: She's passed away before the story starts and the only time she makes an appearance is when Lennie sees a vision of her scolding him in his voice.
* PosthumuousCharacter: She's passed away before the story starts and the only time she makes an appearance is when Lennie sees a vision of her scolding him in his voice.
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* TheAtoner: Part of why he's so protective of Lennie is because, when they were younger, he made fun of Lennie's simplemindedness like everyone else until it caused an accident where Lennie nearly drowned.
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* CantLiveWithEmCantLiveWithoutEm: As much trouble Lennie unintentionally causes for him, having Lennie around did make him feel special.
* TheCaretaker: George serves as this to Lennie; being smarter than him, George comes up with all the plans for getting money, tries to keep him out of trouble, "translates" for him to others, and generally does whatever it takes to keep him alive. PlayedForDrama in that, ultimately, the best thing George can do for Lennie is shoot him in the head.
* TheCaretaker: George serves as this to Lennie; being smarter than him, George comes up with all the plans for getting money, tries to keep him out of trouble, "translates" for him to others, and generally does whatever it takes to keep him alive. PlayedForDrama in that, ultimately, the best thing George can do for Lennie is shoot him in the head.
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* AmbiguousDisorder: The exact nature and name of Lennie's disability are unspecified. The important parts are that he's got the mental state of a child, likes to hold soft things, and he has strength beyond a regular man. Due to his child-like state, Lennie is unaware of what he's actually capable of and what damage he can do. Lennie has to rely on a carer to protect him from the outside world, as well as, reign him in when he gets agitated or scared. Some of this trope might be justified, as the setting is in the 30s.
* AndCallHimGeorge: He loves to pet things but animals don't last long with him. Earlier in the story, he had a mouse and, quote, "pinched it's head" so it'd stop biting him and we see how that went.
* BewareTheNiceOnes: As nice as a guy he can be, he's also very strong so getting him upset wouldn't be anyone's best interest.
* ChronicPetKiller: PlayedForDrama. He's this because he 1) doesn't really know or understand better and 2), is very strong. In one conversation with George,
* AndCallHimGeorge: He loves to pet things but animals don't last long with him. Earlier in the story, he had a mouse and, quote, "pinched it's head" so it'd stop biting him and we see how that went.
* BewareTheNiceOnes: As nice as a guy he can be, he's also very strong so getting him upset wouldn't be anyone's best interest.
* ChronicPetKiller: PlayedForDrama. He's this because he 1) doesn't really know or understand better and 2), is very strong. In one conversation with George,
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* AssholeVictim: He gets his hand broken by Lennie after he tries to assert dominance over him and the bunkhouse. Everyone was clearly on the latter side since Lennie had no interest or desire in fighting him. Slim quickly blackmails Curley to lie about the source of his injury by threatening to tell everyone about how he broke his hand in fight he started against a herculean, towering simpleton. Curley's wife had no sympathy for him either.
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* DomesticAbuser: Implied, however, while he isn't mentioned to hit or yell at her, he does isolate his Wife.
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* YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness: A non-lethal or villanous version. He worries about his place on the farm or any farm because he's elderly and only has one hand.
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* JerkassHasAPoint: Though, he didn't go about it in the nicest or sympathetic way, he did have a point that putting down Candy's dog is the most reasonable thing to do, as the dog was elderly and toothless.
* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: He's prickly, gruff, and a bit mean but he's not wholly unlikable, as, somehow, he gets along with the other characters.
* NoSympathy: When he puts down Candy's dog, he's not all that sympathetic. His convincing Candy to let him euthanize the dog is really him bullying the latter into it, nor is he understanding towards Candy's feelings.
* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: He's prickly, gruff, and a bit mean but he's not wholly unlikable, as, somehow, he gets along with the other characters.
* NoSympathy: When he puts down Candy's dog, he's not all that sympathetic. His convincing Candy to let him euthanize the dog is really him bullying the latter into it, nor is he understanding towards Candy's feelings.
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* AccidentalMurder: How she dies. At the climax of the book in chapter 5, Lennie kills her. He didn't ''mean'' to, he was just trying to stop her from screaming and getting him into trouble, which is lampshaded when George finds the body and talks to Candy and Slim.
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* IJustWantToHaveFriends: Or, at least, someone to talk to. She only wants to talk to the workers but they avoid her because they don't want to have trouble with her fiery-tempered bully of a husband or getting accused of rape if they upset her.
* NoNameGiven: She's not named, just called "Curley's Wife". According to Steinbeck on why she doesn't have a name, she's, quote, "not a person, but a symbol-a foil and a danger to Lennie."
* TooDumbToLive: She's seen firsthand that Lennie is a simple-minded but powerful fool who was capable of ''crushing her husband's hand'', and that he has problems controlling his strength because he's dumb -- after all, he'd just killed his new puppy by accident when she came in. Yet she's still stupid enough to invite Lennie to start stroking her hair, and then panics when he won't stop. When he grabs her and tells her to stop screaming, she keeps on screaming, and he ends up accidentally breaking her neck in trying to make her stop.
* TrophyWife: It's rather obvious Curley married her more because of appearances (she's described as lovely) than love.
* NoNameGiven: She's not named, just called "Curley's Wife". According to Steinbeck on why she doesn't have a name, she's, quote, "not a person, but a symbol-a foil and a danger to Lennie."
* TooDumbToLive: She's seen firsthand that Lennie is a simple-minded but powerful fool who was capable of ''crushing her husband's hand'', and that he has problems controlling his strength because he's dumb -- after all, he'd just killed his new puppy by accident when she came in. Yet she's still stupid enough to invite Lennie to start stroking her hair, and then panics when he won't stop. When he grabs her and tells her to stop screaming, she keeps on screaming, and he ends up accidentally breaking her neck in trying to make her stop.
* TrophyWife: It's rather obvious Curley married her more because of appearances (she's described as lovely) than love.
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* IJustWantToHaveFriends: He would like to have friends but because of his skin color and being the only (mentioned) black worker on the farm, he's isolated and masks this with grumpiness.
* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: He takes a great deal of joy in picking on Lennie. And then he's put on the receiving end of it by Curley's Wife who threatens to have him lynched. However, he seems like for the most part a normal, well-meaning, reasonable person.
* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: He takes a great deal of joy in picking on Lennie. And then he's put on the receiving end of it by Curley's Wife who threatens to have him lynched. However, he seems like for the most part a normal, well-meaning, reasonable person.
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* ParentalSubstitute: We don't know about what happened to Lennie's parents but we do know she's taken care of him since he was a baby until she passed away
* PosthumuousCharacter: She's passed away before the story starts and the only time she makes an appearance is when Lennie sees a vision of her scolding him in his voice.
* PosthumuousCharacter: She's passed away before the story starts and the only time she makes an appearance is when Lennie sees a vision of her scolding him in his voice.
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One of the main characters and Lennie's caretaker
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*TheAtoner: Part of why he's so protective of Lennie is because, when they were younger, he made fun of Lennie's simplemindedness like everyone else until it caused an accident where Lennie nearly drowned.
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* TheCaretaker: To Lennie.
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*TheCaretaker: George serves as this to Lennie; being smarter than him, George comes up with all the plans for getting money, tries to keep him out of trouble, "translates" for him to others, and generally does whatever it takes to keep him alive. PlayedForDrama in that, ultimately, the best thing George can do for Lennie is shoot him in the head.
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*AmbiguousDisorder: The exact nature and name of Lennie's disability are unspecified. The important parts are that he's got the mental state of a child, likes to hold soft things, and he has strength beyond a regular man. Due to his child-like state, Lennie is unaware of what he's actually capable of and what damage he can do. Lennie has to rely on a carer to protect him from the outside world, as well as, reign him in when he gets agitated or scared. Some of this trope might be justified, as the setting is in the 30s.
*AndCallHimGeorge: He loves to pet things but animals don't last long with him. Earlier in the story, he had a mouse and, quote, "pinched it's head" so it'd stop biting him and we see how that went.
*BewareTheNiceOnes: As nice as a guy he can be, he's also very strong so getting him upset wouldn't be anyone's best interest.
*ChronicPetKiller: PlayedForDrama. He's this because he 1) doesn't really know or understand better and 2), is very strong. In one conversation with George,
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* DumbMuscle: He's a deconstruction of this trope, with almost all the death in the book is caused by Lennie accidentally killing something, due to his strength, and not realizing this until it is too late.
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* DumbMuscle
DumbMuscle: Well, he's not "dumb" in the usual case but he really doesn't know any better and he's very strong
*NiceGuyGentleGiant: He's a huge NiceGuy and loves cuddly animals and soft things. The problem is that because of his inability to control his strength, he frequently kills pets when cuddling them.
* NiceGuy: A lot of what he does is because he doesn't know any better, not out of malice
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* NiceGuy: A lot of what he does is because he doesn't know any better, not out of malice
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*AssholeVictim: He gets his hand broken by Lennie after he tries to assert dominance over him and the bunkhouse. Everyone was clearly on the latter side since Lennie had no interest or desire in fighting him. Slim quickly blackmails Curley to lie about the source of his injury by threatening to tell everyone about how he broke his hand in fight he started against a herculean, towering simpleton. Curley's wife had no sympathy for him either.
*AssholeVictim: He gets his hand broken by Lennie after he tries to assert dominance over him and the bunkhouse. Everyone was clearly on the latter side since Lennie had no interest or desire in fighting him. Slim quickly blackmails Curley to lie about the source of his injury by threatening to tell everyone about how he broke his hand in fight he started against a herculean, towering simpleton. Curley's wife had no sympathy for him either.
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* TheBully
BoisterousWeakling: As Candy put it best:
--> "S'pose Curley jumps a big guy an' licks him. Ever'body says what a game guy Curley is. [[HeadsIWinTailsYouLose And s'pose he does the same thing and gets licked.]] Then ever'body says the big guy oughtta pick on somebody his own size, and maybe they gang up on the big guy."
*{{Jerkass}}
TheBully: To the workers on the farm, who can't really do anything because he's the Boss' son. He especially pounces on Lennie because of Lennie being too nice to fight back.
* BullyingADragon: He tried this three times. He tried to pick on Slim and gets intimidated into submission. He does this to Carlson and gets laughed at. Then he turns on Lennie...and, well, we see how that went.
* ConspicuousGloves: He wears a glove full of Vaseline on one hand, supposedly because he's keeping that hand soft for his wife. This has no plot-relevant reason, but does make the theatrical adaptation easier to stage when his hand gets crushed.
*DomesticAbuser: Implied, however, while he isn't mentioned to hit or yell at her, he does isolate his Wife.
* HeadsIWinTailsYouLose:
** According to Slim, this is what getting in fights with Curley is like. Because he's a trained boxer he often beats guys bigger than him, but if he picks a fight and loses, there's no glory in it for his opponent, and the guy who beat him often gets ostracized for beating up a small guy like Curley.
** Ultimately ''subverted'' when Curley picks a fight with Lennie. Lennie is (technically) a childlike GentleGiant with no stomach for fighting, and when he crushes Curley's hand it's in self-defense, and only because George told him to. Although Curley comes out of the fight physically disabled, possibly permanently, the sympathy of the workers rests solely with Lennie.
* {{Jerkass}}: He's accusatory, belligerent, and arrogant and his personality (and antics) gets on everyone's nerves.
* MortonsFork: Slim blackmails Curley with this dilemma. Either live with a crushed hand and emasculated ego or they'll tell everyone how he provoked a kind-hearted, mentally disabled, herculean simpleton into a brawl and lost. Then got him and his carer fired, in order to salvage the remains of his dignity and masculinity.
* TheNapoleon: He's small in stature, [[PintsizedPowerhouse a trained boxer]], and willing to fight almost anyone at the drop of a hat.
* RevengeBeforeReason: He tries to beat up Lennie for laughing at him but fails to remember Lennie's reputation for being the strongest man on ranch despite his childlike intelligence.
--> "S'pose Curley jumps a big guy an' licks him. Ever'body says what a game guy Curley is. [[HeadsIWinTailsYouLose And s'pose he does the same thing and gets licked.]] Then ever'body says the big guy oughtta pick on somebody his own size, and maybe they gang up on the big guy."
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* BullyingADragon: He tried this three times. He tried to pick on Slim and gets intimidated into submission. He does this to Carlson and gets laughed at. Then he turns on Lennie...and, well, we see how that went.
* ConspicuousGloves: He wears a glove full of Vaseline on one hand, supposedly because he's keeping that hand soft for his wife. This has no plot-relevant reason, but does make the theatrical adaptation easier to stage when his hand gets crushed.
*DomesticAbuser: Implied, however, while he isn't mentioned to hit or yell at her, he does isolate his Wife.
* HeadsIWinTailsYouLose:
** According to Slim, this is what getting in fights with Curley is like. Because he's a trained boxer he often beats guys bigger than him, but if he picks a fight and loses, there's no glory in it for his opponent, and the guy who beat him often gets ostracized for beating up a small guy like Curley.
** Ultimately ''subverted'' when Curley picks a fight with Lennie. Lennie is (technically) a childlike GentleGiant with no stomach for fighting, and when he crushes Curley's hand it's in self-defense, and only because George told him to. Although Curley comes out of the fight physically disabled, possibly permanently, the sympathy of the workers rests solely with Lennie.
* {{Jerkass}}: He's accusatory, belligerent, and arrogant and his personality (and antics) gets on everyone's nerves.
* MortonsFork: Slim blackmails Curley with this dilemma. Either live with a crushed hand and emasculated ego or they'll tell everyone how he provoked a kind-hearted, mentally disabled, herculean simpleton into a brawl and lost. Then got him and his carer fired, in order to salvage the remains of his dignity and masculinity.
* TheNapoleon: He's small in stature, [[PintsizedPowerhouse a trained boxer]], and willing to fight almost anyone at the drop of a hat.
* RevengeBeforeReason: He tries to beat up Lennie for laughing at him but fails to remember Lennie's reputation for being the strongest man on ranch despite his childlike intelligence.
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An elderly farm worker with one hand
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* DepartmentOfRedundancyDepartment: 'Candy's been sharpening his pencil and sharpening and thinking.'
*YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness: A non-lethal or villanous version. He worries about his place on the farm or any farm because he's elderly and only has one hand.
* ShootTheDog: Literally! Roughly midway through the story, Carlson bullies him into letting him shoot his worn-out old dog, simply because the former thinks the dog is too old and too smelly. He later agrees that it was necessary and says that he should have been the one pulling the trigger.
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* DepartmentOfRedundancyDepartment: 'Candy's been sharpening his pencil and sharpening and thinking.'
*YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness: A non-lethal or villanous version. He worries about his place on the farm or any farm because he's elderly and only has one hand.
* ShootTheDog: Literally! Roughly midway through the story, Carlson bullies him into letting him shoot his worn-out old dog, simply because the former thinks the dog is too old and too smelly. He later agrees that it was necessary and says that he should have been the one pulling the trigger.
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One of the more experienced farm workers. The narration dubs him the "prince of the farm"
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A mean farm worker
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*JerkassHasAPoint: Though, he didn't go about it in the nicest or sympathetic way, he did have a point that putting down Candy's dog is the most reasonable thing to do, as the dog was elderly and toothless.
*JerkWithAHeartOfGold: He's prickly, gruff, and a bit mean but he's not wholly unlikable, as, somehow, he gets along with the other characters.
*NoSympathy: When he puts down Candy's dog, he's not all that sympathetic. His convincing Candy to let him euthanize the dog is really him bullying the latter into it, nor is he understanding towards Candy's feelings.
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A mean farm worker
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*JerkWithAHeartOfGold: He's prickly, gruff, and a bit mean but he's not wholly unlikable, as, somehow, he gets along with the other characters.
*NoSympathy: When he puts down Candy's dog, he's not all that sympathetic. His convincing Candy to let him euthanize the dog is really him bullying the latter into it, nor is he understanding towards Candy's feelings.
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*AccidentalMurder: How she dies. At the climax of the book in chapter 5, Lennie kills her. He didn't ''mean'' to, he was just trying to stop her from screaming and getting him into trouble, which is lampshaded when George finds the body and talks to Candy and Slim.
* ForgottenFallenFriend: Curley used her death to get murderous revenge on Lennie for breaking his hand. Their marriage was lifeless and Curley didn't take too long to assume the role as a CrusadingWidower.
* HaveAGayOldTime: She's referred to as "jail bait" a number of times, but she is not underage, it is used to mean that the workers are worried that she would accuse them of rape if they crossed her, and end up in prison.
* ICouldaBeenAContender: She claims this during her MotiveRant to Lennie in chapter 5, claiming she could have gone away and become a star in Hollywood, but instead she's stuck out in the middle of nowhere as the bored and lonely TrophyWife of a strutting, arrogant rooster of a ranch-owner.
* INeverGotAnyLetters: Invoked as part of her MotiveRant in chapter 5; she wrote letters to the man who promised he could get her a role in Hollywood, but she never got any back, and she's convinced that her mother was stealing and hiding them.
*IJustWantToHaveFriends: Or, at least, someone to talk to. She only wants to talk to the workers but they avoid her because they don't want to have trouble with her fiery-tempered bully of a husband or getting accused of rape if they upset her.
*NoNameGiven: She's not named, just called "Curley's Wife". According to Steinbeck on why she doesn't have a name, she's, quote, "not a person, but a symbol-a foil and a danger to Lennie."
*TooDumbToLive: She's seen firsthand that Lennie is a simple-minded but powerful fool who was capable of ''crushing her husband's hand'', and that he has problems controlling his strength because he's dumb -- after all, he'd just killed his new puppy by accident when she came in. Yet she's still stupid enough to invite Lennie to start stroking her hair, and then panics when he won't stop. When he grabs her and tells her to stop screaming, she keeps on screaming, and he ends up accidentally breaking her neck in trying to make her stop.
*TrophyWife: It's rather obvious Curley married her more because of appearances (she's described as lovely) than love.
* YourCheatingHeart: Supposedly. Curley suspects the reason she's seldom around and difficult to find is because she's going around having sex with other men. So far, we've only seen her flirt with the other men and, if she did cheat on her husband, we don't hear about it.
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A black farm worker, who keeps to himself
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*JerkWithAHeartOfGold: He takes a great deal of joy in picking on Lennie. And then he's put on the receiving end of it by Curley's Wife who threatens to have him lynched. However, he seems like for the most part a normal, well-meaning, reasonable person.
!Other
!!Aunt Clara
Lennie's aunt who raised him. Lennie describes her as a "fat little old lady, with thick bull's eye glasses and a huge gingham apron".
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*ParentalSubstitute: We don't know about what happened to Lennie's parents but we do know she's taken care of him since he was a baby until she passed away
*PosthumuousCharacter: She's passed away before the story starts and the only time she makes an appearance is when Lennie sees a vision of her scolding him in his voice.
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* BigBad: The main antagonist of the novel.
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* ParentalFigure: ParentalSubstitute: George treats Lennie like a brother and a son.
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* ButtMonkey: Lennie's cost him every job he's tried to hold down so far.far and keep him further from reaching his American dream of having his own land and farm with animals on it.
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* NotDistractedByTheSexy: One scene exclusively made for the 1992 film adaptation had George being pestered by Curley's wife for attention but he remains unresponsive, only aggravating her.
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* ParentalFigure: George treats Lennie like a brother and a son.
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* NiceGuy
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Contributions to this page would be greatly appreciated - I am only one man and so only one Troper. I love this book, and the 1992 movie, so I figure I'll have fun creating this Characters page.
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These are characters that appear in John Steinbeck's famous novel ''Literature/OfMiceAndMen'' as well as its many film adaptations.
!!George Milton
* ButtMonkey: Lennie's cost him every job he's tried to hold down so far.
* TheCaretaker: To Lennie.
* CloudcuckoolandersMinder: He's always working to keep Lennie out of trouble,
* GrumpyBear: He's become short-tempered, gloomy and pessimistic as a result of all the trouble Lennie's put him through.
!!Lennie Smalls
An intellectually disabled person who means well, is particularly strong (perhaps too strong) and loves to tend to soft things, especially living ones. His stupidity often puts him and George in hot water.
* DoesNotKnowHisOwnStrength
* TheDitz: Due to being mentally disabled.
* DumbMuscle
* TemptingFate: Right at the end while Curley is looking to kill him, Lennie and George reunite in the same forest they were in where they promised to meet if things go badly (again). Lennie asks George, "Ain't you gonna give me hell?"
!!Curley
A short-tempered and rather short man who is the ranch owner's son.
* TheBully
!!Candy
!!Slim
!!Curley's Wife
!!Crooks
!!George Milton
* ButtMonkey: Lennie's cost him every job he's tried to hold down so far.
* TheCaretaker: To Lennie.
* CloudcuckoolandersMinder: He's always working to keep Lennie out of trouble,
* GrumpyBear: He's become short-tempered, gloomy and pessimistic as a result of all the trouble Lennie's put him through.
!!Lennie Smalls
An intellectually disabled person who means well, is particularly strong (perhaps too strong) and loves to tend to soft things, especially living ones. His stupidity often puts him and George in hot water.
* DoesNotKnowHisOwnStrength
* TheDitz: Due to being mentally disabled.
* DumbMuscle
* TemptingFate: Right at the end while Curley is looking to kill him, Lennie and George reunite in the same forest they were in where they promised to meet if things go badly (again). Lennie asks George, "Ain't you gonna give me hell?"
!!Curley
A short-tempered and rather short man who is the ranch owner's son.
* TheBully
!!Candy
!!Slim
!!Curley's Wife
!!Crooks
