Candy comes into the bunk house, his old dog trailing behind him. Carlson , another laborer, comes into the bunk house, lamenting at having lost at horseshoes to the Lennie and Carlson come into the bunk house together.
Lennie gets into bed, and Carlson begins cleaning his Slim, Curley, Carlson , and Whit all enter the bunk house. Slim and Carlson stand over Curley, and remark that they need to get him to a doctor—it hardly Carlson takes Curley away to go to the doctor in town. George tells Lennie to wash Part 5. Carlson runs out to get his pistol. Carlson runs back into the barn, shouting that Lennie has stolen his Luger.
Curley suggests they Part 6. He stares at the base of Slim sits down beside George and, seeing his distress, tries to comfort him. Carlson asks George if Lennie had his gun, and George says that he did. Carlson asks He gingerly leads George back through the brush. Curley and Carlson stare after them as they go, and Carlson asks what in the hell could be Cite This Page. How is Lennie different from the other men? Why do George and Lennie travel together? Why does Curley wear a glove on one hand?
What does Slim do at the ranch? Characters Character List. Lennie A large, lumbering, childlike migrant worker. Read an in-depth analysis of Lennie. George A small, wiry, quick-witted man who travels with, and cares for, Lennie.
Read an in-depth analysis of George. Candy An aging ranch handyman, Candy lost his hand in an accident and worries about his future on the ranch.
Read an in-depth analysis of Candy. Crooks Crooks, the black stable-hand, gets his name from his crooked back. Read an in-depth analysis of Crooks. Curley Curley, the boss's son, wears high-heeled boots to distinguish himself from the field hands. Read an in-depth analysis of Curley. Read an in-depth analysis of Slim.
Curley purposely attacks Lennie because he is jealous of Lennie's enormous stature, but he ends up having his hand crushed after Lennie squeezes it too hard.
To save himself the embarrassment of his humiliating defeat, Curley agrees to hide the truth and says that he got his hand caught in a machine. The only female character that physically appears in the story, the unnamed wife of Curley is viewed with lightly veiled disgust by the workers. Despite only being married a few weeks, she already has what the workers call "the eye" and they refer to her as a "tart" It is implied that she constantly seeks out male attention to relieve her loneliness.
Like the men who are plagued by loneliness in the story, Curley's wife is both lonely and regretful and says that she could have been in movies or magazines if she had not married Curley.
It seems that she only married Curley to escape her mother, who was domineering and did not let her go to Hollywood. A quiet, observant man, Slim is portrayed as wise and the true authority figure on the ranch. While the other workers listen to the boss and Curley because they have to, they listen to Slim because they respect him as a worker and as a person.
He gently convinces Candy that it is time to give up his dog, and may be partially responsible for George's action at the end of the story. Slim is the only character on the ranch who understands the bond between Lennie and George. Crooks has two things working against him in Steinbeck's story; he is the only African-American on the ranch and he has a deformed spine.
Due to his race and physical deformity, Crooks lives by himself in the ranch's barn. He is described as proud and aloof, but readers get the sense that Crooks acts aloof due to aching loneliness. Crooks is secretly happy when Candy and Lennie come to visit him, and even allows himself to momentarily believe that he too will live on their little piece of land. After an altercation with Curley's wife, Crooks realizes that even if George, Lennie, and Candy let him live with them, it would never really work out the way he wanted because of his extreme ostracism.
The ranch hand who suggests the killing of Candy's dog, Carlson comes across as a bitter and self-centered man. He expresses society's view that the old and "crippled" are of no practical use and can easily be eliminated.
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