'Of Mice and Men' Revision: Anger (student notes)

ANGER NOTES

·         George gets angry at Lennie because he has to say everything more than once to him. Lennie doesn’t always listen which makes George angry. He is also angry and frustrated because without Lennie, George wouldn’t have such a complicated lifestyle.

·         Lennie relies on George like he is his dad. Lennie looks up to George and that is why when George gets angry when Lennie has done something bad Lennie feels desperate to prove to George that he is able to do things on his home. Lennie does not get angry much he just gets scared however when crooks suggest George is gone he gets angry at crooks

·         When Lennie does something wrong he gets angry at the problem, e.g. when he kills the puppy he blames the puppy “ why you gotta get killed”

·         Curley gets angry with people who are bigger than him and he starts fights with people he thinks can’t stick up for themselves. When he argues with George argues back so he then turns to Lennie à “ big son-of-a-bitch”

·         George told Lennie not to get mixed up with Curley’s Wife because she is trouble, yet Curley’s Wife gets angry and upset with this “ wha’s the matter with me? ’She cried’ aint I got a right to talk to you. I aint doin’ no harm to you.” This shows how Curley’s Wife gets angry with the fact that Lennie has been told not to talk to her and not to get caught up with her. Also she gets annoyed when they suggest that she isn’t a good wife to curley “ the girl flared up

·         Curley’s wife gets angry because she made the wrong mistake in marrying Curley because she thought she could have been someone and gone somewhere. “Seems like they ain’t none of them cares how I gotta live. I tell you I aint used to livin’ like this. I could of made somethin’ of myself”.   She would rather be an actress and thinks her life would be better away from the ranch

·         Crooks is angry with the way he is treated he does not like the racism and wishes he could just get along like the rest of them also he is angry about the rights he has but because he has so few rights the ones he does have he keeps to vigorously

·         Candy is the care taker of the ranch he only has one arm so he can’t too many jobs. One of the main events in the novel is the shooting of candies dog. After the dog is shooting he wishes he shot the dog himself. Lennie learns from this when he has to shoot Lennie at the end of the novel because if George didn’t shoot Lennie he would wish he shot Lennie himself instead of someone else.