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What Is The Relationship Between George And Curley's Wife
In the book “Of Mice and Men” by John Steinbeck. George travels everywhere with Lennie. After aunt Clara asked George to take care of him. George is small but an intelligent men and Lennie is a guy with a tremendous size but a mind of a young child. George and Lennie get a job at a ranch, their goal is to earn enough money to buy their own ranch and have many rabbits but not everything comes out as they had imagined it.

After they got the job in the ranch where they met with Curly, a small and annoying guy, since the first time he saw lennie he hated him because he dislikes big guys. George told him, “Look, Lennie. You try to keep away from him, will you? Don’t ever speak to him. If he comes in here you move clear to the other side of the room. Will you do that Lennie” (29)

The Swamper warned George that Curley’s wife was a tart. While George was telling Lennie where to go if he ever gets in trouble a girl was standing in the doorway “she had full, rouged lips and wide-spaced eyes, heavily made up. Her fingernails were red. Her hair hung in little rolled clusters, like sausages. She wore a cotton house dress and red mules, on the insteps of which were little bouquets of
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Carlson insisted that killing him is better and will end his suffering. At last Candy agree with Carlson “George did not shuffle the cards. He rippled the edge of the deck nervously, and the little snapping noise drew the eyes of all the men in the room, so that he stopped doing it. The silence fell in the room again. Candy lay still staring at the ceiling. There came a little gnawing sound from under the floor and all men looked down toward it gratefully. Only Candy continued to stare at the ceiling.” (49) Later on he tells George that he should have shoot his own dog instead of letting a stranger shoot it for

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