Created For AP Language and Composition
"Of Mice and Men"
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  • Progressive Foreshadowing
  • Themes
    • American Dream
    • Loneliness
    • Prejudice

Character descriptions: Hands

  • Candy: "He pointed with his right arm, and out of the sleeve came a round, stick-like wrist, but no hand." (pg 18)
  • Crooks: "Now and then he poured a few drops of the liniment into his pink-palmed hand..." (pg 67)
  • Lennie: "Lennie dabbled his big paw on the water and wiggled his fingers." (pg 3)
  • George: "Every part of him was defined: small, strong hands, slender arms, a thin and bony nose." (pg 2)
  • Curley: "Well, I tell ya what--- Curley says he's keepin' that hand soft for his wife." (pg 27)
  • Curley's wife: "Her fingernails were red." (pg 31)
  • Slim: "Hands, large and lean, were as delicate in their action as that of a temple dancer." (pg 34) 
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