OMAM Settings
- Created by: Emerald Dragon
- Created on: 27-03-16 17:39
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- OMAM Settings
- The Brush
- Cyclical structure, story starts and ends with the brush
- References the garden of Eden, the place of safety for characters
- "yellow sands in the sunlight"
- Symbol of perfection and relaxation
- Place where Lennie and the dream die
- Originally the place of peace
- People cause problems, not nature
- There is no other choice for George at end
- Represents peace and serenity
- S1
- S6
- The Bunkhouse
- There are 16 men in one room, so there isn't much money spent on each individual worker
- "a long rectangular room"
- S2
- Cruelty, violence, jealousy and suspicion all happen where there are the most men
- S3
- Everything has a pragmatic purpose, showing the survivalist society
- Negativity is only present where there are other men
- Doesn't have anything extra for the workers, so the boss doesn't care for them
- In the microcosm of the ranch, this represents the treatment of workers
- Name shows that it is just for "bunking", not for relaxing
- Separate to the house where the Boss, Curley and his Wife live
- Crooks' Room
- "a little shed that leaned off the wall of the barn"
- Separate to the other workers
- Contains lots of "broken" things
- Represents the racist attitudes
- Cyclical structure in this section
- S4
- Crooks is compared to his room, isolated and broken
- Jail cell of segregation
- Place where threats, cruelty and power plays happen here
- Crooks' humanity is undermined, as he is nearer the animals
- The Dream Farm
- Like a religion, as they speak of it regularly and with awe
- Seen as heavenly and idealistic
- Lennie killing Curley's Wife ruins their chances of getting their dream or to heaven
- S1
- S6
- Symbolises their friendship
- "a big vegetable patch and a rabbit hutch and chickens"
- Never see anything even similar to this
- Barn
- Symbolic irony - barn is a place of safety and comfort for creatures, but death happens there
- Lennie is given the dog, and kills it
- Lennie kills Curley's Wife here
- S5
- Lennie and Curley's Wife connect there, surrounded by animals
- "the sound of moving horses, of feet stirring, of teeth champing on hay, of the rattle of halter chains"
- Man-made place for animals
- Lennie, Crooks and Curley's Wife are the only characters seen there, who are all seen as less than human
- The Brush
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