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CHARACTERS

• LENNIE: huge man, with a slight mental capacity, tender and amiable, debility to caress soft things.

• GEORGE: short man agile mind, Lennie’s protector and friend.• CANDY: he lost his hand in an accident and worries about his future on the ranch. Fearing that his age is making him useless, he seizes on George’s description of the farm.

• CURLY: theboss’s son, he is a confrontational and aggressive young man.

• CURLY’S WIFE: the only female character in the novel, Curley’s wife is never given a name and is only mentioned in reference to herhusband, she represents the temptation of female sexuality in a male-dominated world.

• CROOKS: he is isolated from the other men because of the color of his skin.

• SLIM: Slim is theonly character who seems to be at peace with himself.

• CARLSON: He convinces Candy to put his dog out of its misery.

• THE BOSS: man in charge of the ranch.

• AUNT CLARA:Lennie’s aunt, who cared for him until her death.

EMISOR: narrator/omnicient/third person.

PLANTEAMIENTO: laborers in California’s fields. George and Lennie have a plan: to have their own acre of landand a shack they can call their own. When they land jobs on the ranch in the Salinas Valley the fulfillment of their dream seems to be within their grasp. But even George cannot guard Lennie from theprovocations of a flirtatious woman, nor predict the consequences of Lennie’s unswerving obedience to the things George taught him.

NUDO: this is the part in which Lennie met Curly’s wife and hekilled her accidentally.

CLIMAX: when George shot Lenny in order to do not make that he received a punishment for killing to Curly’s wife.

DESCENLACE: George shown his love for Lennie. Heabandoned his different life’ s hope.

TIEMPO: chronological: past-present.

AMBIENTE: a riverbed in rural southeast of Salinas, California, a beautiful, wooded area at the base of “golden...